HEART OF MOSS

She died tending her garden. She woke up as a dungeon. Mira Wren spent her whole life coaxing beans from soil everyone else had given up on. When her heart quietly stops one ordinary evening, she expects that to be the end of her story. Instead, she wakes beneath a hillside as a newly formed dungeon core, and the system has expectations. Traps. Monsters. Terrified adventurers harvested for Flow. It is, by every standard measure, a perfectly normal way for a dungeon to behave. Mira has other ideas. Within days, her first chamber is full of climbing beans instead of spike pits. Her first manifested creature is a moss covered rabbit who startles at loud noises rather than a fearsome guardian. And when a frightened boy wanders in expecting a curse, she sends him home with a handful of vegetables instead. The system is unimpressed. The Ledger, the cold bureaucracy that governs every dungeon in the land, is considerably less impressed still, and gives Mira thirty days to prove her gentle methods can generate results, or face correction. But something unexpected starts happening on that quiet hillside. A village that once feared the dungeon begins to trust it. A weary old woman finds a warm bed instead of a cold road. A stern Auditor sent to judge Mira finds himself, against every rule he has ever followed, asking why instead of simply writing his report. Heart of Moss is a cozy, slow burn story about choosing kindness even when it is not the efficient choice, about the families we build from nothing but patience and warmth, and about proving that the gentlest path is sometimes the strongest one of all. Perfect for readers who love: - Cozy fantasy with low stakes and high heart - Found family and slow burn friendship turned romance - LitRPG and progression fantasy with a gentle, character first twist - Dungeon core stories where the dungeon just wants to garden Grab your copy of Heart of Moss today, and come rest a while at Haven's Rise.