by Filanina
Golden Forest hides many graves.Some belong to heroes. Others… to those who tried to protect it. Rhona Dingzu was never meant to inherit anything—least of all the White Blade. At eighteen, she is the daughter of the very man plotting to conquer the Golden Forest. Raised among power and political ambition, Rhona once believed loyalty to her father was the only path forward. Until blood was spilled because of her. When the leader of Cygnus—an elite order sworn to guard the forest—places the sacred White Blade in her hands, Rhona becomes something unthinkable: The enemy’s child.The weakest among warriors.And the next leader of men who could kill her with a single strike. Cygnus fractures at once. Some call her salvation. Others call her a mistake that will doom them all. But the White Blade does not choose the worthy. It chooses the one willing to bear its burden. As war closes in, betrayal spreads, and ancient secrets stir beneath the forest, Rhona must prove that leadership is not inherited through strength— —but through the courage to stand against your own blood. Because sometimes… saving the forest means destroying the life you were born into.
