Forced into an arranged marriage to salvage her family's mounting debts, Marceline has but one goal: to use her in-laws' medicinal knowledge to revive her sister from the dead. That is, until she discovers the man whose skill she relied on is deceased.
Determined, Marceline searches for the cure to death on her own. But the further she comes to uncovering the doctor's knowledge, the secrets of Little Garden grow harder to ignore, and Marceline must face a choice between a past she cannot let go and a future she's unprepared to face.