Scarlet Oak - by Angie Weiland-Crosby (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A creative coming-of-age story about a disabled tree sprite's journey away from her forest home to save a boy's broken spirit. Tree sprite Scarlet Oak exists as an outlier in her forested society. Wingless since early youth, she imagines deeper things, longing to know more than a warm bond with her birth oak. Then, one autumn night in 1977, an autistic boy wanders into her realm and hangs himself from her tree. Heartbroken, Scarlet bargains with Smis, Southern Maryland's Grim Reaper, for one cycle of seasons to find proof that the boy's spirit belongs to the Light, not the Dark. Morphing into human form, she finds the boy's distraught father a few steps from her woods and extends a crimson leaf to him. Soothed for a moment, he brings her to his wife on their isolated farm. Scarlet eases into the couple's abode, the bluebell house, which, like the boy's parents, is beautifully fragile, guarded, and wilting with a dark secret. The couple keeps her close, a balm for their grief, but she strays into her own secret with a young man. Meanwhile Smis, a walking calendar, shadows Scarlet's search to rescue the boy. And as Scarlet grows to love her humans, she risks losing her magic and never truly returning to nature's wild, where the boy's spirit may forever be lost. Scarlet Oak is a soulful exploration of the resilience that we all possess, and a gentle call reminding us how love can transcend grief.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Weiland-Crosby weaves a moving tapestry of grief, family, and the enduring power of nature in her fanciful debut. . . . Audiences will be swept away by Scarlet's human life as Willow Brook, who learns that fifty years of tree-sprite living have ill-prepared her for love, jealousy, and heartbreak. Weiland-Crosby's narrative features multiple perspectives . . . offering a multifaceted view of characters and scenes. The lyrical style is touched with poetry, providing insight into the world between fairy and human. . . . [T]his rich fusion of connection and resilience will remind readers of their own magic."<strong> --BookLife Reviews</strong></p><br>
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