The Tree of the Ageless (The Pallid Waste – Book Two)

When the truth seems absurd, how do you convince a rationalist?

Sythis is dead, Zagroah is secure, and Neve Lenareal is finally home. Her days as a novice are behind her—now she’s an apprentice, ready to take on a project of her own. Life should be good, but that would be too easy.

Having transferred to the Third Tower, Neve finds herself under the tutelage of a strict botanist who only wants to leverage her to study the Sacrasa tribe’s sacred Insencia Tree. Worse, it seems that Wilfred—despite their promise to each other—has been unfaithful to Neve during their time apart. And on the morning that she and her new team depart for the High Aftdengals, a familiar face warns her that Gusevka—and the Insencia Tree—might have already been destroyed by a force called the Pallid Waste.

Every rumor of this new and unusual threat seems like something out of a horror tale—eerie and downright impossible. However, Neve is no stranger to the impossible, and that’s exactly why she alone believes them. But if the Insencia Tree is gone, could there be another?

Perhaps … but its caretaker won’t give it up easily.

The Tree of the Ageless is the second entry in the Pallid Waste trilogy, an academic dark fantasy epic with a touch of romance.