Some gardens grow flowers. Others grow graves.
When botanist Lenore Ashworth accepts a post at Eldermere Castle, she expects solitude—not a sentient manor, roses that sing, or a cursed duke who can’t let her go. Every woman before her believed she could break the cycle. Every one was wrong.
But in a garden of shadows and whispered promises, Lenore dares to dream of a different ending—even if love demands the darkest sacrifice.