Maze of Trees

**Product Description**

Carly can never go home. Tricked into becoming the Goddess of Lonely Spaces,

the Los Angeles native has spent years protecting a remote, pristine forest in

West Virginia from developers and other interlopers. Yet that same magic which

empowers her to safeguard an endangered tract of land, its animals, trees, and

rivers, won't let her beyond the forest's reach. Aching with loneliness

herself, Carly errs by falling in love with a visitor to her woods, something

her magic forbids and will do anything to stop.

**Reviews for Fiction by Claudia O'Keefe**

"O'Keefe carries you along with a style as light and swift, but as full of

meaning, as a fairy tale."

-Tangent Online

"...an eloquent testament to loneliness and sacrifice in an endangered

forest."

\--from _Publisher's Weekly_ starred review of _Best New Paranormal Romance_

by Paula Guran

"...a beautifully tragic story about wild places, the intrusion of human

development, and being trapped into a metaphysical role. [O'Keefe] shows both

the glories and the isolation of being a goddess of wild places, mixing in a

sweet and sad love story."

\--Russ Allbery, Eagle Reviews

Originally published in _The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction_ , "Maze

of Trees" was chosen for inclusion in _Best New Paranormal Romance_ and made

_Locus Magazine_ 's Recommended Reading List. O'Keefe's short fiction has also

received Honorable Mentions from _The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-

Fourth Annual Collection_ and _The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th

Annual Collection_.

Word Length: 12,000 (Long Novelette)