TRUE POWER CAN BE AS SOFT AS PETALS, AND ARDENT LOVE AS FRAGILE.


Viantha Waterborne wants to die.

Her abusive brother flaunts his upcoming naming as heir, and she wants no part in it. She hides in the corners of their aching manor, avoiding the worst of his torment and cultivating fantasies of escaping her life forever.

Then a grounded gardener offers her a kind word, and her existence blooms with fresh colour. But hope is a dangerous thing.


An enthralling, vividly intimate, and devastating novella set several years before the events of the Amefyre series.