Edenveil: The Dragon's Curse & The Crimson Seed - Paperback

by Leonard Sweet (Author), Samuel Brownback (Artist)

"You can know about love, or you can know love itself ..."

For seventeen-year-old Tabitha, fifteen-year-old Tatian, and young Lila, Grandma's attic was supposed to be a place of quiet grieving. Instead, a flickering ember inside an old Korean jeong cooking pot pulls the three siblings out of small-town Washington and flings them into Edenveil-a breathtaking, terrifying primordial garden untethered from time.

In Edenveil, the trees sing in ancient harmonies, rivers run the deep red of garnets, and a creature of terrible, celestial beauty watches from the shadows. Nyxash, the Morning Star-a twice-rejected dragon who holds the memory of stars in his bronze scales-is waiting for them. He doesn't hunt with claws, but with whispers, offering the lonely siblings exactly what their aching hearts desire: absolute knowledge, flawless control, and an end to their hidden dread.

To find their way home, the siblings must navigate a shifting maze of echoes and confront the faces of their deepest insecurities. But the swifter path offered by the dragon demands a devastating price. Guided by a mysterious, soil-stained Gardener who speaks in riddles of sacrifice, the children must discover a hidden truth: that the only way out of the dark is to carry the weight of their broken pieces-together.

Perfect for fans of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's mythopoeic depths, and modern portal fantasies like The Wingfeather Saga, Edenveil: The Dragon's Curse and the Crimson Seed is a lyrical, multi-generational allegory about the fierce beauty of grief, the sacred bond of family, and a love that costs everything.