The Arborheart Awakening

By Pamela Beach

For Riven, the fierce protector of isolated Oakhaven, the world is governed by practicality and steel. Her duty is to guard her village against tangible threats, a task anchored by the silent presence of the Arborheart, a colossal, petrified tree that has been dormant for centuries.
Her predictable world is shattered when the Arborheart erupts in a violent, chaotic storm of magical life. The explosive growth transforms the landscape into a place of terrifying wonder and unleashes a power that defies all reason. Into this chaos arrives Soren, a disgraced scholar from the advanced Veridian Kingdom, whose heretical theories about the living land have just become catastrophically real. When the tree's magic turns deadly, Riven is forced into a reluctant alliance with the one man who seems to understand it. Their mission becomes a desperate race against time as a ruthless Veridian army, armed with magic-negating technology, closes in to seize the tree's power. When a village child falls into an unbreakable magical slumber, their quest becomes deeply personal: they must reach the heart of the Arborheart to find a cure and a means of defense.
Their perilous journey through the magically warped forest forges an unexpected bond between the pragmatic warrior and the brilliant academic, forcing them to depend on each other's opposing strengths to survive. Inside the Arborheart's newly formed Spire, they discover a library of living light that reveals a horrifying truth: the Veridian Kingdom is a parasite, its entire civilization fueled by draining the life from the land. The Arborheart's awakening is not an attack, but a desperate immune response-a fever to heal the world. They learn there is no simple cure for the afflicted child; to save her, they must save everything. Their quest is shattered by the arrival of the ruthless General Torvin, who reveals his own plan-not to destroy the tree, but to hijack its power using a secret artifact Soren carries.
Captured, stripped of their advantages, and forced to watch Torvin begin his corrupting ritual, all seems lost. But a spark of rebellion from the villagers provides one final, desperate chance to fight back. In a climactic confrontation at the base of the dying tree, Riven must make an impossible choice: to fully embrace the wild, untamed power she has always feared, joining with the Arborheart to unleash its final, healing pulse. It is an act that will either save their world or shatter it, and forge a new destiny for the warrior and the scholar who dared to listen to the whispers of a dying land.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FN5W3PCZ
• ISBN13: 9798298931434
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"