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Rootbound Hearts: The Complete Trilogy
A body in the branches. A decade-old grudge. And a love neither of them saw coming.
Kaela has spent ten years clawing her way back from one mistake. The last thing she needs is to babysit a grass-brained Investigator when a rare murder in their World Tree home forces them beyond its isolated borders. Hian has spent his life climbing a prestigious political ladder without looking back. The last person he needs at his crime scene is Kaela, the infuriatingly capable wildcat of the Tree Guard he grew up trying to forget. But the murder they uncover together unravels into a conspiracy reaching into the highest branches of power, and drags them back into each other's orbit whether they like it or not.
What starts as a grudging partnership becomes something neither of them can outrun. But as old feelings resurface, a far greater danger is closing in—one that will burn down everything they've ever known and force them to fight not just for each other, but for the only home they have.
The complete Rootbound Hearts trilogy — Blood on the Bark, Ash in the Leaves, and Roots in the Cinders — follows Kaela and Hian from a body in the branches to the ashes of their world and back again.
Kaela has spent ten years clawing her way back from one mistake. The last thing she needs is to babysit a grass-brained Investigator when a rare murder in their World Tree home forces them beyond its isolated borders. Hian has spent his life climbing a prestigious political ladder without looking back. The last person he needs at his crime scene is Kaela, the infuriatingly capable wildcat of the Tree Guard he grew up trying to forget. But the murder they uncover together unravels into a conspiracy reaching into the highest branches of power, and drags them back into each other's orbit whether they like it or not.
What starts as a grudging partnership becomes something neither of them can outrun. But as old feelings resurface, a far greater danger is closing in—one that will burn down everything they've ever known and force them to fight not just for each other, but for the only home they have.
The complete Rootbound Hearts trilogy — Blood on the Bark, Ash in the Leaves, and Roots in the Cinders — follows Kaela and Hian from a body in the branches to the ashes of their world and back again.
990 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2026
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Emily Hickey
6 books1 followerEmily Hickey is a fantasy romance author in love with love... and sometimes in love with doing terrible things to her characters.
Enjoy her stories of love, survival, and gruesome horror in vivid fantasy worlds where the fantastic is often not so for the people actually forced to live there.
When she isn’t writing, Emily can usually be found reading, enjoying history documentaries, and disappearing into the woods, to be spotted stalking through them like a cryptid by normal people.
Enjoy her stories of love, survival, and gruesome horror in vivid fantasy worlds where the fantastic is often not so for the people actually forced to live there.
When she isn’t writing, Emily can usually be found reading, enjoying history documentaries, and disappearing into the woods, to be spotted stalking through them like a cryptid by normal people.
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