The Garden of Failed Loves

​Ember thought her life ended the moment she was thrown into the Pit-a dark, hand-dug hole beneath a cabin built of cedar and secrets. Her captor doesn't speak in the language of men; he speaks in the logic of the wild. He calls himself the keeper of a Garden, a place where "bad seeds" are planted to be broken, and where the winter ice is starting to melt, revealing the bones of those who came before.
​But the Pit is not empty.
​As the days turn into weeks, the silence begins to speak. The ghosts of the six girls who failed to grow in his Garden are rising from the dirt, and they are not just haunting Ember-they are arming her. One by one, they lead her to the things the man stripped from them: a pair of sturdy boots, rugged canvas pants, and a leather belt to hold her together as her body wastes away.
​Underneath the silk daisies of her ruined date dress, a soldier is being forged. To the man above the floorboards, she is still his "Little Bird," wilting in the dark. He has no idea that the ghosts are teaching her his true nature. He is a Shadow, a Beast, and a Monster.
​Ember must decide if she will stay a "perfect seed" and wither in his care-or if she will become the seventh and final harvest, the one who finally turns the Garden into a graveyard.