Our Tree in the Woods

Clara Lockwood has one goal: survive senior year and escape the secrets that have been suffocating her since childhood.But the night a lightning strike tears through the woods, everything changes.Clara doesn’t remember collapsing beneath the shattered tree—but ever since, things feel… off. Moments don’t line up. Memories slip. And no matter how hard she tries to move forward, something keeps pulling her back.Then there’s him.Silas Everhart knows the storm wasn’t random. Finding Clara wasn’t either. The connection between them is immediate—and unsettling. Because the closer he gets to her, the more certain he becomes that whatever happened in the woods didn’t end that night.As the truth about Clara’s family begins to surface, so does something neither of them can ignore: their lives have been circling each other for far longer than they should.Now they’re forced to confront what they’ve both been running from—the past that shaped them,the choices that still haunt them,and a connection that may not be a coincidence at all.Some loves feel inevitable. Some truths refuse to stay buried.And some things, once uncovered, can’t be undone.Perfect for fans of Heart Bones, They Both Die at the End, If He Had Been With Me, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Our Tree in the Woods is a lyrical, heart-wrenching novel about trauma, timing, and the invisible threads that pull two broken hearts into the same storm.Sign up for Kristina's mailing list at kristinamitchellwrites.com