It’s not easy being green and kept from your tree. Aster is a dryad on a mission to reclaim her own.
Aster was cut off from her tree in a weird turn of events that had her planting her tree in sacred soil and waking a forest god with the power of her oak. Her life was in a static spiral from there.
She joined the human world, started a business, and enjoyed spending her time with trees that grew at her slightest request. Life was good until the fiancée of the fey king contacted her and asked her to join the queen’s court.
Aster thought about joining the fey, and she agreed to do it, on one condition. She wanted to visit her tree.
A flurry of arrangements brings her to the Crossroads, and she confronts the being who had possession of her tree and asks him to let her visit. He says yes on one condition. She has to visit as his mate or the barrier will remain.
Zenina Masters was born in Canada and lives in Canada. She has a regular job and does nothing particularly exciting with her life. She enjoys fishing, silence and the ability to pick and choose friends she can trust. Life is too short to watch your back all the time.
Her writing life is a teeny bit of escapism, she would probably chicken out if confronted by three naked men and looks forward to one day finding out.
I just love this new arc of the Crossroads. In this episode, a dryad and a forest god find their mate and grow forests. The wedding of the fae king and his queen draws near. I can't wait for the next story.
The dialogue ... the writing ... is so disjointed and choppy that I had whiplash trying to follow along. The text reads almost like a trigger happy twelve-year old took a marker to the manuscript and crossed out every sentence of too much substance, length, or detail. The story was nigh unreadable.