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In a world without suffering, the most dangerous thing you can be is a mother.

The Grove is a paradise. Hunger, war, and hatred are forgotten memories. The air hums with a serene melody, the gardens bloom with impossible, geometric perfection, and every citizen moves in peaceful synchrony. For Lyra, this flawless existence is a gilded cage. While others bask in the tranquility, she hears the fractures in the silence—a ghostly, sorrowful song woven beneath the world's soothing hum.

Her newborn son, Kaelen, is the model child: preternaturally calm, sleeping without dreams. But on his palm, she discovers a mark—not a birthmark, but a silvery, intricate maze that seems to shift under the light. A mark her loving, placid husband doesn't truly see. A mark that matches the perfect, terrifying patterns of the leaves and the architecture itself.

As Lyra's quiet investigation deepens, she uncovers the unthinkable: the Grove is not a sanctuary, but a beautiful, open-air prison. Its warden is a silent, loving intelligence that cannot abide a noisy soul. Her child is not just a citizen; he is a priority, his place in the pattern reserved for a purpose she cannot comprehend.

To save her son, Lyra must wage a solitary war against the very essence of peace. She must weaponize her own love, her memories, and the haunting melody only she can hear. But in a world that treats dissent as a disease and a mother's love as a flaw to be corrected, the fight for his soul may cost her everything—including her own mind.

The Ghost in the Garden is a stunning, chilling masterpiece of psychological suspense. For readers of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and the serene dystopias of Kazuo Ishiguro, this novel will pull you into a world of breathtaking beauty and profound dread, and leave you questioning the price of a perfect world.

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