The Verdant Chronicles
Q4 2026
Emerald never expected to find a hidden Garden guarded by ancient protectors and threatened by an enemy willing to sacrifice anything for power. Drawn into a conflict older than history itself, she must discover who she is before she can decide what she's willing to fight for.
Reluctant Newcomer
She didn’t plan on finding a hidden garden. She didn’t plan on meeting a mysterious caretaker or ancient guardians. And she certainly didn’t plan on fighting corrupt creatures whose essence destroys everything it touches.
Emerald didn’t plan on any of that. But she’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect what she loves.
Keeper of the Garden's secrets
The Caretaker watches over a garden most of the world doesn't know exists.
He is warm, patient, and frustratingly selective about the questions he's willing to answer.
When Emerald finds her way inside the Garden, he doesn't tell her what to believe or what choice to make. Instead, he offers her something much more difficult:
A choice that is genuinely hers.
Guardian of the Garden
Tzuriel has protected the Garden from dangers most people won’t—and shouldn’t—know about.
Towering and decidedly inhuman, he is one of the Guardians. But beneath an intimidating exterior, Emerald discovers someone remarkably patient and gentle.
He may be one of the strangest people Emerald has ever met.
And one of the easiest to trust.