A Garden Made of Rain

Ishani’s skin drains water from every living thing. Exiled prince Arav is the only man who can touch her because royal alchemy replaced his blood with artificial rain. Their consent-built scent garden turns memory into touchable water, wind, and flowers—and makes the palace grounds bloom around proof that his family engineered the drought. To free the reservoirs, both must confess the lives they traded for survival and surrender the throne’s monopoly on rain.

The only prince who can touch a lethal monsoon witch enters her scent-made garden—and wakes proof that his family engineered the drought.