Seasons of Albadone (The Eighth Chant, #1)

Four seasons. Four stories.An aspiring enchantress searches for a way to lift a terrible curse.A drunken father makes a dangerous wish.A foreman tilts the balance between nature and progress. A mother travels with her dying child in search of a healer.Four paths merge. Four destinies intertwine.Adriel is an apprentice enchantress living in the forest of Albadone. Her teacher falls ill due to a terrible curse and sends her on a quest to fetch the ingredients for an enchantment that may save her. Upon returning to the cabin they share, Adriel stumbles upon a terrible secret.Handel is an alcoholic father. His daughter's dying wish is for him to travel within the heart of the forest to seek the mysterious Wishing Tree. Handel finds the Tree, but the wish it grants may not be what he bargained for.Brade is a foreman digging into the heart of the forest, seeking the volatile black water within its depths. The warnings he receives go unheeded, and he unknowingly sets into motion a terrible catastrophe.Ashe's baby is dying. All the healers have left the woods of Albadone, so the desperate mother travels through the forest in search of anyone that may help. But the help that she finds comes at a terrible cost.