The Hothouse of Liars

In the glass-walled city of Veridion, the flowers are beautiful, expensive, and deadly. Vara Hext knows exactly how to make them kill.

Vara is an illicit perfumer and black-market botanist. In a world trapped under an eternal winter, where status is measured by the rarity of one's garden, she creates unauthorized hybrids-intoxicating scents that can steal memories or stop a heart. She is a criminal, a survivor, and a master of poisons.

Her dangerous game ends when she is framed for the murder...