Chapter 1:Even If It Kills Me

When Tanrin-the only family Rita has left-falls to a sickness no healer can cure, the elders tell her to accept his death. But Rita refuses.

She's heard whispers of a forbidden forest, a place where no one returns the same... or alive. Somewhere inside it lies a fruit said to heal any wound.

To save him, she must step into a world of demons, curses, and madness-and risk - becoming the very thing the elders fear.

Rita knows the price of hope. She's willing to pay it.
Even if it kills her.