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Lydka and the Forbidden Tree
Paperback
Series: The Heirs of the Portals, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the living forest of Élendirä, Lydka has grown under the watch of the Primordial Trees in the village of Vëlanth - yet one absence shapes her more than any lesson: those who were named to guide her disappeared long ago. When Hëldrin, the ancient beech, finally carves a riddle into its shifting runes, Lydka accepts the trial. Through Daelwyn's mirror of emotions, she feels memories that are not entirely her own... and finds the trail of a borderland where the season never yields.
Beyond Vëlanth, her path grows harsher. A grim outpost village keeps watch at the edge of the Veil of the Sources, where the mist hides an unrelenting conflict and every oath comes at a price. Farther still, Lydka is torn into shattered realities: a motionless sea of sand, a grey stone city hanging like a mirage, silent ghosts that tug at the mind and drive the living toward a tower rising like a finger pointed at an empty sky.
To endure, Lydka must learn to read what the Trees refuse to say, resist bonds that imprison instead of protecting... and face the shadow of the Mëralith - the Forbidden Tree, feared by all as the cycle's merciless judge. At last she will reach the scattered fragments of her grandfather's soul - and discover that the Forbidden Tree does not only condemn. It listens. It chooses. And this time, it has chosen to stand by her.
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