{"product_id":"rootbound-a-k-rook-9798176651546","title":"Rootbound: A Jungle Entity Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy grandmother taught me to thank the plants. On Ahiʻkoa, the forest answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI came to the island looking for a flower everyone thought was extinct. Finding it could save my career. Then someone began clearing paths through the undergrowth for me, leaving gifts where I would find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is enormous, built of living root and vine, with amber eyes and a body that belongs to the mountain. He remembers every leaf I've taken. He learns where I like to be touched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've spent nine years leaving places before they could become home. Now I'm counting the hours until I can go back to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the rain is late. The old trees are dying, and I can feel their sickness beneath my own skin. The closer we become, the harder it is to tell where his pain ends and mine begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has lost someone before. He will do almost anything to keep me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI want to stay. I need him to understand that staying has to be my choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd somewhere in this dying forest, we have to find a way to survive it together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. K. Rook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176651546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.68d","brand":"A. K. Rook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780135915775,"sku":"9798176651546","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rootbound-a-k-rook-9798176651546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}