Arbor talks to trees. It’s the only thing he’s ever been good at.
He’s a forestry robot, built to read the panic in a stressed aspen, map the fungal web beneath the soil, and learn the eighty-year history of a spruce.
Trees, he understands. People are another matter.
After he glitches and terrifies a family of campers, Arbor is given one last chance.
They send him to a remote wildfire base the crew calls Club Crisp—the worst place for a robot who breaks down around fire. The forest is dying. The crew doesn’t want him. And hidden in the warm compartment of his chest is an orphaned baby raccoon.
Then someone starts lighting fires.
Four in a month.
And the trees, which drink up everything the soil holds, know something the humans don’t.
A warm, wry mystery about a discarded robot learning what it means to put down roots.For readers who enjoy character-driven science fiction with heart.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
He’s a forestry robot, built to read the panic in a stressed aspen, map the fungal web beneath the soil, and learn the eighty-year history of a spruce.
Trees, he understands. People are another matter.
After he glitches and terrifies a family of campers, Arbor is given one last chance.
They send him to a remote wildfire base the crew calls Club Crisp—the worst place for a robot who breaks down around fire. The forest is dying. The crew doesn’t want him. And hidden in the warm compartment of his chest is an orphaned baby raccoon.
Then someone starts lighting fires.
Four in a month.
And the trees, which drink up everything the soil holds, know something the humans don’t.
A warm, wry mystery about a discarded robot learning what it means to put down roots.For readers who enjoy character-driven science fiction with heart.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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