The Garden of Borrowed Springs

Winter roses are blooming in midsummer.

Apple trees are bearing blossom and ripe fruit at the same time. Snow is falling inside Alderwren’s greenhouses, and gardens are remembering people who have been dead for years.

Then Moth leads Angela Lark to a hidden corner of the Garden of Unplaced Things—and to a young gardener named Iven, who claims he was sent to Alderwren before he was born.

Iven remembers Angela as an elderly woman. He remembers gardens that have never existed and futures no one has chosen. But each time one of Alderwren’s stolen seasonal memories is planted around him, he becomes a little more real.

Someone is determined to make him permanent.

As Angela follows the trail of missing springs, she discovers that the thefts are rooted in grief—and in one woman’s desperate belief that a beautiful future should never be allowed to disappear. But preserving Iven may mean forcing the entire town into a future it never agreed to live.

With Moth tracking impossible seasons, Jonas mapping futures that may never happen, and Tamsin facing a magical role that has already renewed itself without her permission, Angela must unravel which memories belong to the past, which hopes belong to the future, and which choices still belong to the people making them now.

Because hope deserves to be remembered.

But it must never be mistaken for destiny.