The unending war

In a world built on fault lines, Tay has always felt the ground thinking about moving. She just wanted a normal life: shifts at work, late‑night drinks with friends, sneaking sweets for the kids at the market under a too‑blue sky that looks safe on purpose. Then the earth opens beneath her feet, lava calls her by name, and she discovers a power that refuses to burn her. When Tay steps into the lava, she doesn’t die—she’s transported. She wakes in a hidden base under the protection of Avery Ashland, a lonely lava‑walker soldier who’s been waiting his whole life to meet someone like him. As war spreads across their world and monsters called Roats twist human minds in the Dark Forest, Tay and Avery are pulled together by fate and torn apart by enemies who understand exactly how dangerous they could be if they stand side by side. To save the people they love—and the family Tay never knew she had—they’ll have to survive the Dark Forest, outsmart the Roats, and decide how far they’re willing to go for each other in a war‑torn world that was never as harmless as the sky pretended to be.