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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)