Rooted

In Black Salt, love is a sickness you can’t hide—a slow gnawing beneath the skin that leaves you hollowed, grayed, and eventually gone. No one stays long enough to see it through; they leave before the rot finishes its work. It’s what the town teaches you: when it starts, you run. You look away. You survive by pretending not to feel. But Atlas is tired of pretending. The halls of Black Salt High are full of kids pretending they don’t see each other’s bruised hearts, pretending their bones aren’t already whispering warnings. Still, he can’t forget the weight of a father who stayed—not out of love, but because he never felt it deep enough to decay. That truth lingers in Atlas like a second shadow. And then there’s Nova—the outsider with a storm in her bones. And Wren, all sharpness and fight. Milo, who cracks jokes to keep the silence at bay. Luce, who wears her thorns like jewelry. Together, they don’t know how to stop the rot. But they’re learning how to sit with it, how to name it, how to refuse the small, hollow deaths of pretending not to care. In a town where love is a death sentence, staying might be the bravest thing of all.

A bloody resistance against colonial invasion that tears Seme's indigenous leadership apart marks the entry of a strange culture into the clan. Osayo, the priest, seeks to protect the clan's religious system from erosion by the Blue-eyed (colonists). He, however, has to face off with a few loose canons, including his own son who escapes to a mission center far from home and ends up falling in love with a convert. In the meantime, a terrible plague breaks out in the clan, killing animals and people and leaving the land barren. Coupled by a misunderstanding of concepts in the new faith propagated by the Blue-eyed, a longstanding rift and blame game emerge between the converts and the conservatives, and spuns into a cutural marriage. Soon afterward, Osayo dies and his son, Okayo, realizes he has a greater role to play. The supernormal powers of the clan's aboriginal religious tree are stolen by a witch in line with a prophetic myth. And in a painful and tumultous mission to reunite the two conflicting religions of Seme Clan and limit the Blue-eyed's influence, Okayo puts his front foot forward in combating witchcraft so as to have the tree's powers in safe custody, and protect good from being superseded by evil.

I emptied my savings to buy the home where my boyfriend and I were supposed to start our married life. On the first day after the renovation was finished, his mother appeared at the door carrying two overstuffed duffel bags. "Marcus said half of this house belongs to him, so we decide to move in here." I stood in the living room I had paid to renovate, staring at the jars of homemade preserves inside his mother's bags and at his younger brother swaggering toward a bedroom with his suitcase. Marcus Caldwell only smiled. "Jules, my mom has a bad back. I'll have her stay in the primary bedroom. If you can't put up with this now, how are we supposed to build a life together?"

Paige McDougall, a young witch running a successful orchard with her family, meets Charles one morning and feels an instant connection. But Paige knows that Witches should never get mixed up with mortals it’s usually a dangerous affair. Witches have to keep their powers hidden to keep them safe from humans or worse their mortal enemy; witch hunters. Paige's life is turned upside down when a powerful family secret surfaces, challenging her fate. Will their connection withstand these revelations, or will the truth keep them apart? When a witch hunter attacks her sacred garden Paige soon finds out her mother and father have been keeping a secret society of witches from her. With the help of her ancestors Paige will uncover the truth about the witch hunters and a secret realm of magic.

Eden a girl born with powers strong enough to manipulate the earth and bend its waters. In a world where plants have long withered and the rivers dried, it is only a matter a time before her powers are the only thing saving humanity.

After the brutal slaughter of his pack, Logan Winchester becomes a rogue, wandering alone until he discovers a secluded cabin deep in the woods and decides to settle there. One day, while roaming the forest, he encounters a strikingly beautiful woman named Dawn Black. The moment he sees her, Logan knows she is his mate. But there’s a problem—Dawn doesn’t feel the bond. To her, it seems like a mistake, something impossible to believe. Meanwhile, Dawn’s father, Alpha Joseph Black, is determined to strengthen his power by forming an alliance with another pack. To seal the agreement, Dawn is expected to marry her childhood friend, Malachi. Reluctantly, she accepts the arrangement. As Dawn prepares for her future, she uncovers a dark secret about her father—one that leaves her feeling deeply betrayed. Not long after learning the truth, something unexpected happens: she begins to feel the mate bond with Logan. Now torn between duty and destiny, Dawn must make an impossible choice. Who will she choose?