The highly-anticipated fantasy debut from Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning author Thoraiya Dyer, occur a huge mythical rainforest controlled by living gods

Unar dreams of greatness.

Identified but destitute, she escapes her parents’ plot to market her into slavery. Right now she serves in your garden from the goddess Audblayin, ruler of growth and fertility.

However when Audblayin dies, Unar sees her chance for glory – at the risk of descending into the unknown hazards of Understorey to consider a reincarnated newborn god. In its depths, she discovers new types of magic, dropped family contacts, and murmurs of a revolution that may cost Unar her chance…or grant it by destroying the home she loves.

“I am majorly impressed with Thoraiya Dyer’s Crossroads of Canopy. A unique, gorgeous, and dangerous world, a persistent feminine hero, and a writer to watch!”-Tamora Pierce