Requiem in a Withering Garden (Michael Langdon fanfiction)
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Requiem in a Withering Garden is a gothic romance set in a crumbling estate where secrets bloom as thickly as the roses. When Elowen, a gentle and intuitive musician, arrives to tend the estate's neglected garden, she finds herself drawn to its enigmatic keeper-a man with an unsettling presence and eyes that seem to know too much. As the days pass and the air thickens with unspoken truths, their bond deepens through music, silence, and the strange magic that seems to breathe between the hedgerows.
But beauty often masks decay.
And love, once planted, does not always grow the way you expect.
Lush, lyrical, and atmospheric, Requiem in a Withering Garden is a slow-burning tale of longing, mystery, and the quiet unraveling of two souls caught in the echo of something far greater than themselves.
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