Seventeen-year-old Iva has spent a year haunted by her mother’s inexplicable disappearance into the Forgotten Forest—a place that exists at the edge of reality, holding everything humanity has chosen to dismiss as myth. On the anniversary of Elena’s vanishing, Iva makes a fateful choice: she crosses the threshold into a world where magic isn’t fantasy but fundamental truth, and where her mother’s secrets are far darker than she imagined. The Forgotten Forest is a living sanctuary where every myth debunked, every wonder explained away, and every mystery solved and stripped of its power has taken refuge. But this realm is dying, starved by humanity’s relentless rationalism. Without belief to sustain them, these forgotten wonders are fading into oblivion. At the forest’s heart lies a source that holds the memories of everything humanity has lost—and Iva’s mother sought to reach it at any cost. What Iva discovers shatters her world: she was the subject of an ancient bargain. Born of a bloodline carrying forest magic, Iva was claimed by the magical realm at birth. Her mother made a desperate deal to raise her in the human world until her seventeenth birthday, after which Iva would belong to the forest forever. When Elena tried to break that bargain by reaching the Heart of the Wood, she became trapped in an impossible trial—frozen between worlds, unable to choose between her human daughter and her magical heritage. Guided by forest guardians and armed with her mother’s enchanted blade, Iva must pass seven trials that test not her strength but her wisdom. Each challenge strips away comfortable certainties: she learns to distinguish truth from deception when both wear identical faces, discovers that sacrifice isn’t about losing but about choosing, and ultimately refuses the very terms of the trials themselves. When faced with the same impossible choice that broke her mother be fully human or fully magical Iva does the unprecedented: she rejects the false binary entirely, declaring that wholeness matters more than simplicity. Her defiance transforms everything. She frees her mother, converts enemies into allies, and ultimately convinces Morgantha the ancient witch who first taught humanity to forget magic three thousand years ago to undo that forgetting. When the spell unravels, two long-separated worlds collide in chaos. Reality fractures as magic floods back into a civilization unprepared for its return. People across the globe suddenly see spirits who have been invisible for millennia, and Iva must help guide humanity through its first day of restored sight. The final trial isn’t a single test but an ongoing challenge: teaching two worlds to coexist after three millennia of separation. Some humans react with wonder, others with terror, still others with greed. Each moment requires mediation, translation, and the courage to build bridges rather than walls. Iva learns there are no perfect solutions only the daily choice to embrace complexity rather than retreat into comfortable certainty.