Edenveil

The Dragon's Curse & the Crimson Seed

by Leonard I. Sweet

"You can know about love, or you can know love itself." When seventeen-year-old Tabitha, fifteen-year-old Tatian, and young Lila climb into Grandma's attic to grieve, a flickering ember inside an old Korean jeong pot pulls them out of small-town Washington and into Edenveil — a breathtaking, terrifying primordial garden untethered from time. Its trees sing in ancient harmonies, its rivers run the deep red of garnets, and Nyxash, the Morning Star — a twice-rejected dragon who carries the memory of stars in his bronze scales — is already waiting. He hunts not with claws but with whispers, offering the siblings exactly what their aching hearts crave: absolute knowledge, flawless control, an end to their hidden dread. To find their way home, they must navigate a shifting maze of echoes, face the counterfeit versions of themselves the dragon has prepared, and listen to a soil-stained Gardener who speaks in riddles of sacrifice. Woven through the tale is jeong (정) — the Korean word for a deep, sacrificial bond kept alive like a shared fire — and the quiet insistence that the only way out of the dark is to carry the broken pieces together. Lyrical, multi-generational, and unafraid of grief, Edenveil is written in the tradition of Narnia, Tolkien, and The Wingfeather Saga — a fable of family, heritage, and a love that costs everything.

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