Keeper of Crossings. Tales of the Minted Realms, #1

*Tales of the Minted Realms: Keeper of Crossings* is the story of Kimi, a Wood Elf Druid with fey blood in her veins and a gift for hearing what the land is trying to say. When the animals flee Whisperwood and a seven-year-old girl goes missing, Kimi follows the roots into the dark and finds something that has been waiting three hundred years to be understood rather than simply contained. What begins as a rescue becomes a reckoning - with an ancient corrupted fey, a gate that should never have opened, and a network of crossing scars bleeding quietly across the land.
As Kimi tends each wound, she begins to see the shape of something larger: a vast intelligence that has not been opposing her at all, but preparing her, step by careful step, for a door at the center of everything. Alongside a hunter who trusts actions over words, a river warden who has been quietly guarding a secret for thirty years, and a nine-year-old boy carrying his ancestor's intention in a carved wooden fish, Kimi walks north toward the oldest crossing in the world.
Truth is the only real power. The door has been held open from the inside for three hundred years. Someone is finally coming.