She thought surviving was the hardest part. She was wrong.

Lyra should not be alive.

After a violent crash tears her from everything she knows, she wakes in a forest that pulses with an unnatural life of its own. The trees breathe. The ground moves. Silver veins glow beneath bark like a living heartbeat. And when a single floating leaf slices her skin, something ancient awakens inside her.

At first, Lyra thinks she is hallucinating.

Then the changes begin.

A wound vanishes. Light moves beneath her skin. The forest starts answering her. And the deeper she is drawn into its shifting, intelligent network, the more terrifying the truth becomes: she is not the first to be changed.

Others came before her.

Most did not survive.

Some became something worse.

Now hunted by beings that recognize what she is becoming, Lyra must fight to hold onto her humanity while an evolving system tests, studies, and reshapes her from the inside out. Because the forest is not broken. It is searching.

And it may have finally found what it has been waiting for.

Silver Leaf: Book One – She Shouldn’t Exist is a dark, atmospheric psychological sci-fi fantasy about survival, transformation, identity, and the terrifying cost of becoming something entirely new.

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