Perennial's Bloom - Paperback

The hero who saved the world has spent nearly four hundred years pretending she never existed.

Celadon Cailleach is a witch, a shopkeeper, and the immortal woman behind the legend of Couretania's Great Hero. Every year, the people of Forset celebrate the victory that supposedly freed the continent from darkness. Every year, Celadon lets them believe the story they were told.

Because the truth is far more dangerous.

When strange signs begin surfacing in her quiet forest town, Celadon's carefully hidden life starts to unravel. The gods who shaped the world's history are not finished with her. The war she thought she ended still casts its shadow. And the ruby amulet locked around her throat may be more than a reminder of the past-it may be the key to what comes next.

Forced from the safety of her emporium, Celadon is drawn into a journey across a divided continent with a charming schoolteacher, a sharp-tongued half-elf, a fierce young orc, and companions who challenge the loneliness she has carried for centuries. Together, they uncover buried histories, forbidden truths, and the first sparks of resistance against the Ascendants who rewrote the world in their own image.

But some lies are protected by gods. And some truths can start a war.

Perennial's Bloom is the first book in The Perennial Cycle, an epic fantasy adventure filled with witches, ancient gods, hidden history, found family, slow-burn romance, political intrigue, dragons, magic, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.