by Elise Chidley (Author)
Book One in The Deepwood Trilogy
When seventeen-year-old parkour champion, Willow McBane, is uprooted from London to a crumbling cottage in Gloucestershire, she expects nothing but loneliness and boredom. But in the whispering forest behind her new home, she meets Raff Dunaid, a secretive boy with the bearing of a prince.
Raff is heir to Emberlyn, a hidden realm powered by elemental currents that also sustain life on Earth. Currents that are now failing. In Emberlyn, they call it the Withering.
When a plan is set to clear the trees of Deepwood--the last place where magic still seeps between realms--Willow reluctantly joins Raff to save the link that keeps both worlds alive. But Raff is concealing a dangerous prophecy, and his wicked brother Faylan is closing in to make sure it comes true.
Author Biography
ELISE CHIDLEY was born in eSwatini and went to school and university in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her first novel, Your Roots Are Showing (published by Grand Central, and by Orion in the UK as The Wrong Sort of Wife), was nominated for Best First Book and Best Single Title Contemporary Romance at the RITA Awards. She received her MFA from Penn State and now lives in Connecticut, teaching creative writing at The Westport Writers' Workshop. The Raven, the Wolf, and the Rose is her first YA novel.
Number of Pages: 422
Dimensions: 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: September 08, 2026
