In the ghost town of Withering Creek, grief is a living thing—and Ash is its latest host.

Still reeling from the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Ash stumbles upon a strange greenhouse nestled in the ruins of her decaying town. Unlike everything else in Withering Creek, the greenhouse is alive—unnaturally so. Inside, radiant flora shimmer with impossible color and pulse with a seductive magic. They promise comfort, closure, and even the return of lost memories. But every gift comes at a price.

The greenhouse feeds on memories, emotions, and grief—and Ash is its perfect meal.

As Ash returns again and again, drawn by visions of her mother and the temporary escape from sorrow, she begins to unravel. Each visit costs her more than she realizes: pieces of her past vanish, relationships falter, and her very identity begins to fade. And when the wishes she makes begin to cost lives—real, irreversible losses—Ash can no longer deny the dark pact at the heart of the greenhouse.

With the help of Briar, her best friend and skeptic tether to reality, Ash uncovers a horrifying truth: the greenhouse is not just a magical anomaly, but the feeding ground of an ancient entity known as the Withering One—a being bound to the town by a centuries-old bargain that is slowly destroying everything and everyone she loves.

Now, Ash must make an impossible choice: continue feeding her grief to the creature in exchange for fleeting solace, or confront the ancient darkness and risk losing what little she has left. The Greenhouse is a haunting, atmospheric tale of grief, identity, and the monstrous cost of wishing for what we’ve lost.