What if you had to live the life of every creature you've ever harmed?

Dora Chen is a professional trapper working for a New Zealand Landcare group, dispatching thousands of invasive species to protect native wildlife. It's necessary work. Conservation work. She's saving the forest, one trap at a time.

Until the day a possum looks at her with unmistakably human eyes, and everything changes.

A profound exploration of karma, consciousness, and compassion, Renewed Life Cycle asks:

• Can we do necessary harm with open hearts? • What if the boundaries between self and other are illusions? • What does it truly mean to walk gently on the earth?

Part philosophical journey, part magical realism, this is a story that invites us to pause before our next step, look twice at the beings around us, and reconsider what it means to live in relationship with the world.

For readers who loved The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Midnight Library, and anyone who has ever wondered what lies beyond the veil of ordinary awareness.