The Last Garden of Veyra

Noor Alcott-Mendes is nineteen, dyslexic and grieving her father. She has failed her English exam three times and is holding a struggling Herefordshire farm together. Then a message arrives from the stars.

The Veyrans, a gentle alien race whose children grow from seeds, are dying, and they ask Earth for one hundred people who know how to make things grow. Against all odds, Noor is chosen.

On Veyra she finds a forest that breathes, a harsh elder who calls humans weeds, and a quiet Veyran named Sael who sees her differently. When the precious seed pods are stolen and Noor is accused, she has to stand trial unable to read her own defence.

Clearing her name means uncovering the truth beneath the Mother Root, and she will need every one of the hundred hands to make a dying world bloom again.