The Raven Chooses Spring

For twenty years, Elowen called ownership protection. Then her raven familiar swallows a lake-sword shard, becomes a man, and rejects the name she gave him. Bran demands a life chosen season by season, but the dead general buried in his memories gives the invading fae a door into his mind. To save the forest without rebuilding its chains, they must burn the borrowed ghost and grow a new magic that answers consent instead of command.

Her raven familiar becomes a devastating man and rejects every chain she called protection—just as the fae army discovers the dead general inside his mind.