Breath of the Forest

ACADEMIA SAID HIS RESEARCH WAS FANTASY. THE FOREST SAID IT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. Disgraced cryptozoologist Dr. Lachlan McGregor trades his lab coat for a whiskey flask engraved with a Māori sea serpent. His destination? Japan’s primordial cedar groves, where trees whisper secrets older than science. There, he assembles an unlikely team: A high-stakes CEO whose panic attacks vanish under pine canopies An immunologist replacing pharmaceuticals with forbidden forest remedies A rebel artist weaponizing tree shadows against corporate galleries An architect turning urban decay into guerrilla gardens THEIR MISSION: Prove what data can’t capture—that human cells sync to ancient arboreal rhythms. That bark patterns hold healing codes. That Tokyo’s concrete cracks conceal living wisdom. THEIR WEAPONS: Cortisol tests transforming into poetry Moss penetrating city asphalt like green shrapnel A single cedar pulsing at 432 Hz—nature’s frequency of rebellion THEIR ENEMY: A scientific establishment calling their findings "dangerous folklore." PRAISE FOR THIS GENRE-DEFYING THRILLER OF ECO-RESISTANCE: "Lab Girl meets The Overstory—with the tension of The Da Vinci Code!" –– Fictitious Book Review "Made me tear up my antihistamines and hug an oak tree." –– Fictitious Reader’s Digest FOR FANS OF: The Overstory (Richard Powers) Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake) The Midnight Library (Matt Haig) DARE TO LISTEN WHAT THE WORLD TRIED TO SILENCE.