Loses his wife and son (or dad? He definitely lost a wife and a relative ) close around the same time and hes pretty tore up about it. His wife homegirl try to get at him after her death not knowing our protagonist is gay.

Its not by K Sterling bc this came out before 2026.

Witch series, read ~2014-15, English. Heroine is a 30-something “loser” who has a bad breakup, then finds out she has magical powers that run in her family. Her car is named “Purple People Eater.” She moves to (I think) London, opens a bakery/shop for witches, and gets caught in a love triangle (one guy is named Sebastian). Main conflict: she’s a magical heir/important family member and others want to usurp her or her family. Probably part of a series.

So, something around 2010s (maybe something closer to 2015) my friend gave me her book to read. It was about two young boys and it was written from both heir povs. They lived on the last island that still had any teees on it as wood was in this world the most expensive thing. One boy was child of some higher up on this island, the other was really poor. The poor boy was I think child of the crow goddess? or just connected with her. I also think he was able to manipulate trees to grow how he wanted them. It was probably not a stand alone book, but can't be sure. I read this in Polish.

Its certainly many years old but when i last read it online in some Forum where you can upload parts of your Books the Story wasnt finished. The author wanted to officially release the book when it would be finished.

The Story is about a rather advanced race which fights with swords and uses something like Zen in combat. Some of these Warriors get stranded on a not so advanced planet and get dragged into a war against the King of this planet.

Sorry for my bad english…

Maybe someone has an idea?