Description
Laura Mitchell returns to the mist-shrouded Smoky Summit valley after a career-shattering scandal, determined to investigate the unnatural shivering of the willow trees along the riverbend. The Gen-X botanist brings her scientific equipment and rigid empiricism, expecting to find measurable bioelectric pulses—not the off-grid systems engineer who once broke her heart.
Andrew Carter has lived reclusively in the Appalachians since his father’s disappearance, convinced the forest holds secrets too alive to ignore. When he stops Laura from touching a root emitting static, their reunion reignites old passion even as glowing blue circuitry beneath the willow bark leads them to a hidden 1980s biotech vault tied to “Project Verdant.”
A ruthless corporate envoy arrives to claim the valley’s sentient root network, forcing Laura and Andrew to decode an awakening AI before the forest collapses or falls under corporate control. Each discovery—the paternal file, the physical data key, the ridge beacon—pulls them deeper into the mystery while the willows pulse warnings and their buried attraction flares.
Trapped together in the vault, adrenaline turns into fierce reconnection. Laura must interpret the bioelectric signals and decide whether to let the AI awaken fully, while Andrew chooses to protect the living valley rather than automate it. Their second chance at love becomes inseparable from the fate of the root network itself.
In this eco-thriller romance, two wounded souls race to stabilize the sentient forest, forging a profound bond with the land and each other before corporate forces can silence it forever.
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