Untold Secrets of Redwood
Most elves remember their mothers touch, song, and love. Yet, eleven-year-old Princess Rose remembers none of that. But she will never forget the day she stumbled upon the cosmic nightmare surrounding her mother’s tragic death.
Being a freak who talks to animals is unfitting for a princess, her regal family always preaches. That’s Rose’s problem, she possesses a rare ability to communicate with nature. A complicated birth took Rose’s mother away and with it any chance of understanding her mysterious lineage. However, when an ancient cult seeks to steal her magic, Rose is caught in a power struggle that started the day her mother died. What looks like a simply accident, is actually the work of her aunt — Agatha. An aunt she didn’t know she had until Agatha tries to sacrifice Rose to the sect’s deity.
Her problems double when she discovers the rioting anguish between her mother’s family and her father’s. Then there’s what her magic is doing to her people. A people divided and on the verge of civil war. Controlling an army of mutant animals sounds nice, as does uniting the two rivaling families as her mother dreamed, but the unification requires her willing blood sacrifice to the deity, or so it seems. The more she ties to run from her blistered destiny, the more it demands familiar blood. Figure it out and she will save herself, but is she really worth saving if everyone else dies?