Many harvests both magical and mundane grow in the king's orchard. Aneira has likewise grown in her village community harvesting fruit from the sacred trees and partaking in the wheel of the year rites with her peers. But newly betrothed Aneira finds that her heart and her longings for her future might take paths as winding as those leading through the revered grounds of the orchard itself. The kingdom outside stands on a precipice, and the arrival of a Potioner with a bad reputation carrying the weight of his convoluted past promises to make her change as no one born from orchard soil ever has before.