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The Garden of the Ghost
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE GARDEN OF THE GHOST
by Larne Atkins
In a walled garden in nineteenth-century China, love refuses to die.
Meiyu is raised to become a wife, not a person. Her life is carefully shaped by duty, obedience, and silence until she is promised in marriage to Zimo, a boy who sees her not as property but as a mind and a soul. For the first time, Meiyu believes that marriage might be something more than survival.
Then Zimo drowns.
What follows is not only grief, but rupture. As her future collapses and her mother's health fails, Meiyu is pushed back toward a fate she now knows she cannot endure. And when the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to thin in the garden they once shared, she discovers that love does not always end where life does.
Zimo returns, not as memory, but as presence. Bound by unfinished promises. Unable to move on. Unable to leave her behind.
Caught between a society that demands she marry and a ghost who will not release her, Meiyu must decide whether survival is enough, or whether a life without freedom is its own kind of death.
The Garden of the Ghost is a haunting, atmospheric novel about:
Love that persists beyond death
The cost of duty placed on women
Grief, waiting, and unfinished lives
The quiet rebellion of choosing self over safety
The thin, dangerous line between the living and the dead
Lyrical, restrained, and emotionally devastating, this novel explores what happens when a woman refuses to let the world decide the limits of her heart.
Some gardens grow flowers.
Some grow ghosts.
And some become the only place where truth can survive.
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