Gift from the Tree

Gift from the Tree opens the Source of Elementra series. Willow wakes on her twenty-sixth birthday hoping for a quiet day, only for a stranger's gift to upend her life entirely: her own husband offers her up as a rite of passage for his initiation into a cult. When unknown powers burst out of her during the ritual, one man ends up dead and Willow is found tied to a desk amid the wreckage of her husband's study.

In the chaos that follows, she's taken to Elementra, a hidden realm home to the Vito Nexus and governed by magic, shifters, and old bonds she doesn't yet understand. There she meets Corentin, Tillman, Caspian, and Draken — the men whose lives, and protection, become entangled with hers as she starts to grasp the scope of what she now is.

Gift from the Tree is a full-length, slow-to-mid burn reverse harem romantasy — the first of five books in the series — mixing possessive, protective love interests with a mystery around Willow's true nature. It ends on a cliffhanger.