Gardens of Living Memory

Seven people came home from the Memory Gardens able to recite everything they lost, and none of them can feel a word of it. In the Gardens, the grieving plant their memories as flowers: a father's last words, a daughter's laugh, tended into bloom. Now someone is stealing the heaviest of them in the night, and the mourners they belong to return hollowed. Meredith Trevelyn is the guardian sent to recover what was taken. She mends other people's grief with a precision she has never turned on her own. Her grandmother's journal has sat unread on her desk for fourteen months, and the room upstairs stays locked. The thief she finds is guarding a loss vast enough to swallow a forest. To reach her, Meredith must name a truth the two of them share, and naming it will cost her the silence she has been living in. For readers of The Midnight Library and Klara and the Sun, a tender fantasy about what memory needs to stay alive. Grief is love with no place to go, and Meredith has been holding hers for fourteen months. Open the door. Start reading Gardens of Living Memory today.