The Hothouse of Liars
In the glass-walled city of Veridion, the flowers are beautiful, expensive, and deadly. Vara Hext knows exactly how to make them kill.
Vara is an illicit perfumer and black-market botanist. In a world trapped under an eternal winter, where status is measured by the rarity of one's garden, she creates unauthorized hybrids-intoxicating scents that can steal memories or stop a heart. She is a criminal, a survivor, and a master of poisons.
Her dangerous game ends when she is framed for the murder of a High Aristocrat, found blooming with vines from the inside out.
Enter Stellan Voss, the Chief Patent Officer of the Royal Conservatory. Cold, sterile, and obsessed with order, Stellan is the city's executioner of illegal flora. He should send Vara to prison. Instead, he places her under house arrest in his own custody. He needs her expertise to decode the mutation that killed the aristocrat before it consumes the city.
Trapped together in the humid, claustrophobic heat of Stellan's estate, the tension between the chaotic botanist and the rigid enforcer becomes suffocating. Stellan wears gloves to protect the world from his touch, but Vara is the one thing he cannot seem to stay away from.
As they unravel a conspiracy rooted in the city's very foundation, they realize that the real poison isn't in the plants. It's in the lies that built Veridion.
A lush, intoxicating Dark Romantasy where love is the most dangerous toxin of all.
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