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Pretty Flowers

This Poison Heart  (Poison Heart, volume 1)

By Kalynn Bayron  

9 Jun, 2023

Doing the WFC's Homework

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2022’s This Poison Heart is the first volume in Kalynn Bayron’s This Poison Heart series.

Teenage Briseis Greene struggles with unremarkable grades in school, familial money worries (the rent for her adopted parents’ flower store is being hiked), and her fear that she will be outed. She has a special talent: she can make plants grow. She’s still learning to control her gift and others might suspect that something odd is happening if plants were to thrive in unnatural profusion.

Distraction for such worries comes in the form of an unexpected inheritance.

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