Deep Roots

"WORSHIP NONE OR WORSHIP ALL. IT IS NOT OUR LOVE THE GODS ARE CONCERNED WITH. IT IS KARADENZA'S."

It's the summer festival in the elvish kingdom of Cypress. A month of drama, debauchery, and devotion-and half-elf Irving is arrested on the first day.

Irving hopes to escape their sentence before their legendary prophet of a father finds out. Until an opportunity comes along: help a priestess smuggle sacred Cypress devices into the human realm, and earn their ticket out. Humans and elves are divided by distrust and violence thanks to the rivalry between their goddesses, but Irving knows they belong anywhere but Cypress.

After being poisoned, Rho's life depends on that rivalry. The goddess of medicine and poison has trapped her in a divine realm, and as a skilled magical inventor, Rho's determined to discover the inner machinations of the pantheon and their plans.

Eirjatal survived a divine war that left him with deep scars and centuries'-old fears. Now, he's entrusted with the knowledge of another upcoming threat, and this one may pull him down into the depths for good. Luckily, a queen with mind-bending magic and a grudge against the humans promises that despite all his doubt, the two of them alone know what's best for Cypress.

???????The elf and human realms are mere fragile pieces in the games the gods play. Over the centuries, Eirjatal and Rho have seen the start of Cypress's fractures, but its destruction may fall in Irving's lifetime-and in their hands.

Deep Roots is the first book in a trilogy, set in a queernorm world with a slow-burn plot full of lore, history, and family.