The Botanist’s Guide to Broken Hearts

A lonely botanist who believes plants feel emotions starts a garden where broken hearts heal. But when her ex-fiancé brings a dying rose for help, old wounds bloom again.

Marigold Quinn believed plants could feel sorrow. Not in the anthropomorphic way people joked about—no talking sunflowers or weeping willows—but in something deeper. A vibration. A tremor in the roots. When her mother died, the orchids in her childhood windowsill shriveled overnight, even though she’d watered them faithfully. When her heart was broken years later, the lavender outside her flat turned brittle, though the weather was mild. People laughed when she said so

Published on 2026-02-03 by Jam eBooks