Are some people born invasive… or did someone make them grow that way?
Clara is nine the first time she steps through the door of the house at number seven. For three years, she believes she has simply found a refuge with Aurora and Silvana, two women who welcome her with tea and biscuits every afternoon.
Until he discovers the truth:
beyond the ivy-covered wall lies an impossible garden where whatever happens to the plant also happens to the person.
There, fragile roots are nourished.
Old wounds are pruned.
Invasive plants are contained.
But in the garden, tending isn't all that happens:
it's also decided who flourishes… and who doesn't.
When Vanessa, the most feared girl at school, begins to feel the same pull toward the garden that Clara does, the Guardians discover something unsettling:
Her plant bears ancient seals.
Marks that should never have existed.
Someone altered its growth.
Now Clara must face a question that will change the way she sees the world:
Are some people born invasive… or did someone make them grow that way?
To protect the garden's balance, she'll have to find out whether an altered root can still find its way back… or whether forcing it to grow in another direction means it forgets who it was ever meant to be.
The Human Garden is the first tale in the Rondel series: a luminous fantasy with darker veins, about bullying, redemption, and the delicate balance between protecting and transforming.
For readers of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and The Enchanted Greenhouse.
Because no one flourishes alone.
And no one withers without a reason.
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