The Visitor (The Garden of Forgotten Things, #1)

The Garden of Forgotten Things
A Story of Memory, Loss, and What Still Grows
Once every ten years, beneath a sky neither night nor day, a garden awakens where no map dares to lead. Hidden beyond the margins of the world, it blooms with impossible plants—each one grown from a forgotten memory, a silenced grief, or an emotion left behind. Time stirs differently there. And for those who find the gate, the garden does not offer escape. It offers truth.
For Mira Ellison, a woman adrift in the fog of her own past, the garden arrives like a whisper: unexpected, unsettling, and impossible to resist. Grieving the loss of her mother and estranged from the life she once knew, she follows the pull of a dream and stumbles into the garden's living maze. There, she encounters other wanderers—each carrying a secret, each searching for something they cannot name.
As Mira explores its winding paths, she discovers that every plant holds a memory, and every memory demands something in return. A letter never sent. A child never born. A moment she has tried all her life to forget. Within the garden's quiet magic, she must decide what to let go of—and what to reclaim.
But the garden, too, is changing. A withering sickness stirs in its roots. And someone—or something—is watching from the mist.
The Garden of Forgotten Things is a poetic, emotionally layered journey through grief, memory, and transformation. With echoes of Erin Morgenstern, Emily St. John Mandel, and Isabel Allende, this standalone tale opens the door to a world where forgotten emotions grow wild, and healing takes the shape of a flower.