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The Divine Gardener's Handbook
(2026)Or What To Do If Your Girlfriend Accidentally Turns Off the Sun
A novel by Eli Snow
WARNING: MAY CAUSE REBELLION, RADICAL GARDENING, AND ROMANCE.
‘Pure chaotic good.’
—Julie Leong, USA Today bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Divine Gardener’s Handbook is a sapphic dystopian fantasy of botanical sabotage, a questionable god named Saul, and a woman falling for the person most likely to ruin her life.
In a Jenga-stacked megacity where glowing blue flowers hum in the dark and palace doors open into secret worlds, getting a job in the Divine Gardens is almost impossible—like being plucked from obscurity by a carnival claw machine. But Cyprin has spent her whole life trying.
Her only chance is winning the annual flower pageant, dominated for five years by Purcell: brilliant head gardener, unbearable rival, and the one person Cyprin can’t stop thinking about. When Cyprin cheats her way to victory, she’s thrust into a world of sentient plants, ancient secrets, and a God who turns out to be just some exhausted man with a very good garden.
What begins as rivalry, heated glaring, and increasingly personal acts of warfare spirals into something much more dangerous. As rebellion spreads through the city and the truth beneath the Gardens begins to unravel, Cyprin and Purcell find themselves caught between ambition, obsession, and the terrifying possibility of understanding each other completely.
Even if they burn the whole world down in the process.
The Divine Gardener’s Handbook is perfect for readers who like their fantasy weird, heartfelt, and a little unhinged.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
‘Pure chaotic good.’
—Julie Leong, USA Today bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Divine Gardener’s Handbook is a sapphic dystopian fantasy of botanical sabotage, a questionable god named Saul, and a woman falling for the person most likely to ruin her life.
In a Jenga-stacked megacity where glowing blue flowers hum in the dark and palace doors open into secret worlds, getting a job in the Divine Gardens is almost impossible—like being plucked from obscurity by a carnival claw machine. But Cyprin has spent her whole life trying.
Her only chance is winning the annual flower pageant, dominated for five years by Purcell: brilliant head gardener, unbearable rival, and the one person Cyprin can’t stop thinking about. When Cyprin cheats her way to victory, she’s thrust into a world of sentient plants, ancient secrets, and a God who turns out to be just some exhausted man with a very good garden.
What begins as rivalry, heated glaring, and increasingly personal acts of warfare spirals into something much more dangerous. As rebellion spreads through the city and the truth beneath the Gardens begins to unravel, Cyprin and Purcell find themselves caught between ambition, obsession, and the terrifying possibility of understanding each other completely.
Even if they burn the whole world down in the process.
The Divine Gardener’s Handbook is perfect for readers who like their fantasy weird, heartfelt, and a little unhinged.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Praise for this book
"A fiercely imaginative ride, The Divine Gardener's Handbook is the kind of novel that makes you want to stay up late reading. It has gardens full of so much more than meets the eye, entertaining characters harboring major secrets, and a story that manages to be funny, heart wrenching, profound, and relatable, sometimes all in one sentence." - E B Asher
"Unique, clever, and charming, The Divine Gardener's Handbook will surprise and delight you!" - Sarah Beth Durst
"This book is pure Chaotic Good - queer, wildly imaginative plant-based hopepunk that you'll want to inject directly into your veins. A maniacally good time." - Julie Leong
"The most fun I've had reading a book. Snow designs a world that beautifully mimics the chaos and hardships of our own while spinning it into something fun and full of voice. These characters literally come to life on the page - I didn't want to say goodbye." - T R Moore
"The Divine Gardener's Handbook is an exciting romp through a lush garden of unexpected delights. Snow sows the seeds of the familiar and chaotic in one pot to create this fun, fascinating, and imaginative debut." - Samantha Sotto Yambao
"Unique, clever, and charming, The Divine Gardener's Handbook will surprise and delight you!" - Sarah Beth Durst
"This book is pure Chaotic Good - queer, wildly imaginative plant-based hopepunk that you'll want to inject directly into your veins. A maniacally good time." - Julie Leong
"The most fun I've had reading a book. Snow designs a world that beautifully mimics the chaos and hardships of our own while spinning it into something fun and full of voice. These characters literally come to life on the page - I didn't want to say goodbye." - T R Moore
"The Divine Gardener's Handbook is an exciting romp through a lush garden of unexpected delights. Snow sows the seeds of the familiar and chaotic in one pot to create this fun, fascinating, and imaginative debut." - Samantha Sotto Yambao
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