Daye was woven together from flowers and magic to be the perfect playmate for Rory, a young boy left isolated in a remote country house. In the early years, their friendship, almost eerily in sync, is everything the two lonely children could dream of. But the threat of Daye literally--and gruesomely--falling to pieces whenever the seasons change drives Rory to learn even-deeper and stranger magic, until the line between what he can do and what he should do begins to blur. And the further Rory experiments, the higher the stakes climb, until the cost of a mistake might be either Daye's freedom or her life. Daye can't help but love Rory, even as he keeps disappearing: into his studies and into the city, a place where she, a girl whose heart is built of petals and berries, could never enter without falling apart. But her choices narrow with each new experiment, Daye begins to wonder at what point the price for loving Rory might be too high.
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