Young Gar of Meadowhay leads a middling life. His job as a field hand is fine, his friends are fine, and the abuse from his aunt is, well, not fine—but bearable. And it's all worth it. Because once a year “fine meets divine” in the form of Aristhre, a goddess who attends Meadowhay’s spring festival to guide its sacred blossom ceremony. This season, after a decade of longing, Gar will defy all taboos...and ask her to dance.
Aside from being vilified, exiled, punished as a heretic, and blasted fr...