The Orchard of Lost Seasons
When a dead peach tree blooms in the middle of winter, seventeen-year-old Novaine Cress expects another reminder of the father she lost.
She does not expect the fruit to speak.
Inside one impossible golden peach is Tolliver Saye-a boy who vanished from the same village ninety-three years earlier and has not aged a day.
His return opens the way to the Orchard of Lost Seasons, a breathtaking hidden world where rivers carry memories through the sky, living mountains wander with villages on their backs, six-winged creatures cast shadows from futures that have not happened yet, and doors can open into everything the heart has ever wanted back.
But something is terribly wrong.
For generations, the House of Turning has moved seasons in the name of keeping the kingdom safe-borrowing rain from one valley, summer from another, and even pieces of years that have not yet been lived. What was taken never truly disappeared.
It gathered.
Now the Orchard is breaking open, and everything that was lost, borrowed, interrupted, or refused an ending is trying to return.
As seasons collide and forgotten doors begin appearing everywhere, Novaine and Tolliver are drawn deeper into a world more beautiful-and more dangerous-than either imagined. Tolliver must face the family that lived and died while he was missing, along with the entire future that was stolen from him. Novaine must confront the grief that has quietly shaped every choice she has made since her father died.
And somewhere between airborne rivers, impossible summers, mischievous Pimmiri, ancient Myralae, wandering Ostrae, and a love neither of them is willing to call destiny, they begin to discover a harder truth:
Sometimes loving what was lost does not mean bringing it back.
Sometimes it means allowing life to continue.
The Orchard of Lost Seasons is a sweeping fantasy adventure filled with wonder, unforgettable magical creatures, humor, mystery, first love, breathtaking landscapes, and an emotional story about grief, memory, choice, and the courage to step toward a future no one can promise.
For readers who love immersive fantasy worlds, slow-burn romance, extraordinary creatures, found family, emotional depth, and the feeling of discovering a place they wish they could enter themselves.
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