The glass forest

Author : WYNNE HALLORAN

Every tree is made of glass. Every tree remembers. And every secret you’ve ever kept is about to be shown.

When nineteen-year-old glassmaker Maren Thorne wakes to find her little sister’s bed neatly made and a single warm tear of glass on the pillow, she knows the Wood has taken Linnet three weeks before the bargain falls due. Eight years ago, Maren traded something precious to save her sister’s life. Now she must walk into the Glasswood, a vast forest of living glass ruled by a grief-mad enchanter, and bring Linnet home before the Longest Night.

But the Wood is no ordinary enchanted forest. It shows. Every shame, every lie, every buried sorrow plays out in the glass for all to see. The trees are not trees at all. They are sleeping people, thousands of them, kept in the dark by the very secrets they were too afraid to tell.

With a thieving magpie who speaks in other people’s voices, a cartographer’s apprentice whose arm is turning to glass, and a weaver who has never forgiven herself, Maren crosses a lake of mirrors, an orchard of the kept, and a house lit by ten thousand lanterns. Then the Wood takes her voice, and the one truth that could save her sister is the one thing she can no longer say.

The Glass Forest is a lush, dark-edged fairy-tale fantasy about sisterhood, guilt, forgiveness and the courage it takes to say the thing you’ve hidden. If you love atmospheric standalone fantasy, enchanted forests, fairy-tale retellings, and stories where love is the most dangerous magic of all, you will not want to leave this Wood.

Standalone. No cliffhanger. A complete, satisfying fairy tale.

Grab your copy and step into the glass.

📖 305 pages