Emma and the Talking Flowers (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Margarito III Barraza, 2026
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Paperback. Nineteen-year-old Emma Sterling has spent most of her life feeling like an outsider in a city built from concrete, steel, and noise. After leaving behind her family's rural land and the grandmother who taught her to listen to the natural world, Emma moves into the Skyview Meridian Spire, a towering residential complex where nature seems to have been completely erased. She expects an ordinary life surrounded by strangers and machines. Instead, during a violent blackout, she discovers a hidden service elevator that carries her beyond the limits of the building-and into an impossible garden suspended above the city.There, Emma encounters something no ordinary person should ever hear: flowers that can speak.The strange rooftop garden is filled with living plants whose voices reveal distinct personalities, memories, fears, and desires. Some are playful and curious, while others are proud, suspicious, or deeply wounded. Emma soon learns that her grandmother's old teachings were not simply folklore. A dormant connection to the earth has awakened inside her, allowing her to communicate with the garden and sense the hidden life moving beneath the city.But the talking flowers are in danger. Their existence is connected to ancient forces beneath the Skyview Meridian Spire, and powerful human interests have disrupted the balance between the city and the natural world. As Emma becomes increasingly involved with the garden, she discovers that the flowers are not merely magical curiosities. They are witnesses to what has been lost, and their voices carry warnings about the forces threatening to silence them.Emma must learn to work with the plants and the mysterious beings who protect them, including the fierce fey warrior Elara. Along the way, she confronts grief over her grandmother's death, her complicated relationship with her mother Sylvie, and the loneliness that has made her believe she must carry everything by herself.The deeper Emma ventures into the hidden world above and beneath the city, the more she understands that her gift is not about commanding nature. It is about listening. Every flower has a voice, every root carries a memory, and every living thing is connected through a network that the concrete city has nearly forgotten.When the final conflict threatens the garden and the balance of the Meridian Fault, Emma chooses cooperation and restoration rather than domination. Her courage helps free the natural forces that have been suppressed, allowing the rooftop garden to flourish and reconnect with the world below.In the aftermath, the garden becomes a place of refuge rather than a secret prison. Flowers bloom for children, neighbors gather among the paths, and the once-isolated rooftop becomes a living community. Emma finally realizes that she is no longer an exile. She has found a home-not by returning to the life she lost, but by creating a new one where people, plants, and forgotten forms of magic can exist together.Emma and the Talking Flowers is an atmospheric urban fantasy about grief, belonging, nature, communication, and the healing power of listening. It combines a mysterious hidden world with a deeply human story about learning that home can grow wherever people choose to care for one another. After discovering a secret garden suspended above a concrete metropolis, a lonely young woman realizes she can hear the voices of the plants. She must now protect these sentient blooms from forces seeking to silence the natural world forever. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9798182800945
- Titre
- Emma and the Talking Flowers (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Marcus Singletary
- Éditeur
- Margarito III Barraza
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798182800945
Nineteen-year-old Emma Sterling has spent most of her life feeling like an outsider in a city built from concrete, steel, and noise. After leaving behind her family's rural land and the grandmother who taught her to listen to the natural world, Emma moves into the Skyview Meridian Spire, a towering residential complex where nature seems to have been completely erased. She expects an ordinary life surrounded by strangers and machines. Instead, during a violent blackout, she discovers a hidden service elevator that carries her beyond the limits of the building-and into an impossible garden suspended above the city.There, Emma encounters something no ordinary person should ever hear: flowers that can speak.The strange rooftop garden is filled with living plants whose voices reveal distinct personalities, memories, fears, and desires. Some are playful and curious, while others are proud, suspicious, or deeply wounded. Emma soon learns that her grandmother's old teachings were not simply folklore. A dormant connection to the earth has awakened inside her, allowing her to communicate with the garden and sense the hidden life moving beneath the city.But the talking flowers are in danger. Their existence is connected to ancient forces beneath the Skyview Meridian Spire, and powerful human interests have disrupted the balance between the city and the natural world. As Emma becomes increasingly involved with the garden, she discovers that the flowers are not merely magical curiosities. They are witnesses to what has been lost, and their voices carry warnings about the forces threatening to silence them.Emma must learn to work with the plants and the mysterious beings who protect them, including the fierce fey warrior Elara. Along the way, she confronts grief over her grandmother's death, her complicated relationship with her mother Sylvie, and the loneliness that has made her believe she must carry everything by herself.The deeper Emma ventures into the hidden world above and beneath the city, the more she understands that her gift is not about commanding nature. It is about listening. Every flower has a voice, every root carries a memory, and every living thing is connected through a network that the concrete city has nearly forgotten.When the final conflict threatens the garden and the balance of the Meridian Fault, Emma chooses cooperation and restoration rather than domination. Her courage helps free the natural forces that have been suppressed, allowing the rooftop garden to flourish and reconnect with the world below.In the aftermath, the garden becomes a place of refuge rather than a secret prison. Flowers bloom for children, neighbors gather among the paths, and the once-isolated rooftop becomes a living community. Emma finally realizes that she is no longer an exile. She has found a home-not by returning to the life she lost, but by creating a new one where people, plants, and forgotten forms of magic can exist together.Emma and the Talking Flowers is an atmospheric urban fantasy about grief, belonging, nature, communication, and the healing power of listening. It combines a mysterious hidden world with a deeply human story about learning that home can grow wherever people choose to care for one another.
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