A thousand years ago, in a forgotten age where sorcery still walked hand in hand with the earth, there existed a hidden world of witches and wizards. But their magic, though wondrous, was shadowed by fear. For mankind possessed a single weapon against them - a sacred flower capable of ending even the strongest wizard's life. And so, the innocent were hunted, while the wicked concealed themselves among the very people they tormented, leaving the burden of humanity's wrath to fall upon the good.
In the depths of an ancient forest lives a powerful but solitary wizard, a man who carries both fear and defiance in his heart. In secret, he labors to create a potion that will shield him should humans ever discover his existence. Yet his destiny changes the day a kind-hearted young woman stumbles upon him in pain and offers him aid. From that moment, her compassion becomes his undoing.
But jealousy betrayed them, and the wrath of villagers consumed them in flames.
Only the wizard rose again, reborn by the very potion he had perfected - cursed with immortality, yet bereft of the woman and child he loved. From his grief was born vengeance, and from vengeance, a revelation: the power to restore what was lost.
Now, torn between revenge and redemption, he must decide - will he burn the world that destroyed his happiness, or resurrect the one reason his soul still clings to hope?
Amelia Bright has a special skill; when she talks to plants, they respond.
Well, not immediately. But they grow better when she sits in her garden and has a chat.
In a world where vampires hide in nightclubs and wizards advertise their services to a skeptical society via an ignored newspaper, Amelia retreats to a cottage she inherited from a reclusive aunt. It's a pretty good life for a millennial; a rent-free existence where your annoying neighbour is a bear, but when a man who calls himself Martin Everly shows up and starts leaving creepy garden gnomes in the forest behind the cottage, Amelia gets a pressing urge to lock up the cottage and never come back. What does Martin want? Will Amelia be able to shake that weird feeling before it forces her out of her lucky inheritance? And, perhaps more importantly, if a random guy advertising his services as a professional wizard can catch a break, is there a way to earn a living slowly growing happy plants?