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Some flowers bloom from grief. Some magic awakens when the world has forgotten how to look for it.
Seventeen-year-old Kaelen lives in the shadow of expectations she never chose - caught between courtly obligations, strained friendships, and a power she doesn't understand. When heartbreak drives her to the castle garden one silver-washed night, she expects only silence. Instead, she finds something impossible: a golden flower blooming from the place where her tears fell.
It wasn't there before. And it shouldn't exist.
But something old is stirring beneath the soil - something long-lost, whispered about in bedtime tales and burned from the history books. Magic, ancient and nearly forgotten, is beginning to remember the world. And it's remembering Kaelen.
As she begins to unravel the truth behind the garden's secrets - and her own unspoken longing to be chosen for who she is - Kaelen must decide who she wants to become in a world that is just beginning to wake.
Haunting, tender, and quietly spellbinding, this coming-of-age fantasy explores grief, belonging, and the delicate power of things once lost - and the fragile beauty of finding them again.