The bone roots - Gabriela Houston

It's been 40 years since the Fox took Kada's brother. Though she ranand kept herself hidden,she fears itmay be stalking her again, this timeto stealher daughter.

Every year, Vedma Kada gives thanks to the bone roots -those that belong to thechild-bearing tree who gave Kada her desperately-wantedbaby, Secha. Kada lives her life in service of the bone roots and the goddess Zemya, but they cannot keep her daughter safe. Not when Secha's emerging powers, bothmysterious and brutish, threaten to out her for who she truly is

Meanwhile Sladyana, a rich noblewoman, has spent the last fifteen years searching for her missing daughter, Luba. She wassnatched from their home by the Fox thief and Sladyana has heard nothing from her since. But the one who gave Sladyana her daughter has comewithin her grasp onceagain, and so has the secret of her daughter's fate.

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