"You can know about love, or you can know love itself …"
For seventeen-year-old Tabitha, fifteen-year-old Tatian, and young Lila, Grandma's attic was supposed to be a place of quiet grieving. Instead, a flickering ember inside an old Korean jeong cooking pot pulls the three siblings out of small-town Washington and flings them into Edenveil—a breathtaking, terrifying primordial garden untethered from time.
In Edenveil, the trees sing in ancient harmonies, rivers run the deep red of garnets, and a creature of terrible, celestial beauty watches from the shadows. Nyxash, the Morning Star—a twice-rejected dragon who holds the memory of stars in his bronze scales—is waiting for them. He doesn't hunt with claws, but with whispers, offering the lonely siblings exactly what their aching hearts desire: absolute knowledge, flawless control, and an end to their hidden dread.
To find their way home, the siblings must navigate a shifting maze of echoes and confront the faces of their deepest insecurities. But the swifter path offered by the dragon demands a devastating price. Guided by a mysterious, soil-stained Gardener who speaks in riddles of sacrifice, the children must discover a hidden truth: that the only way out of the dark is to carry the weight of their broken pieces—together.
Perfect for fans of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's mythopoeic depths, and modern portal fantasies like The Wingfeather Saga, Edenveil: The Dragon's Curse and the Crimson Seed is a lyrical, multi-generational allegory about the fierce beauty of grief, the sacred bond of family, and a love that costs everything.
