A dark, intoxicating gothic fantasy where desire can be as deadly as any poison.

After the sudden death of her husband, Thora Grieve is left penniless and shunned—until a family friend secures her a coveted place at a prestigious university to study botany. Among the moonlit glasshouses and rare blooms, she meets Olea, a mysterious young woman who tends the professor’s private garden only at night.

Olea’s beauty is matched by the strangeness of her condition: a secret illness that keeps her bound to the garden walls. Drawn together by loneliness and fascination, Thora and Olea’s connection deepens into an all-consuming obsession.

As Thora races to uncover a cure, the line between love and intoxication blurs, and the garden’s lush allure threatens to entangle them both in something far more dangerous than desire.