The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

A Dark and Lush Fairy Tale of Love, Secrets, and Betrayal

"A haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly." — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House

"Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every exquisitely crafted sentence." — Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

In the vein of The Bloody Chamber and Starling House, New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi delivers a mesmerizing gothic fairy tale—one of a cursed friendship, a marriage built on secrets, and a house filled with whispers of the past.

Once upon a time, a scholar of myths fell in love with the enigmatic Indigo Maxwell-Casteada. She was an heiress, beautiful and mysterious. He was captivated. But in return for her love, Indigo demanded a promise: he must never ask about her past.

Yet when they return to her ancestral home, the House of Dreams, curiosity takes hold. Within the mansion’s crumbling walls and lavish corridors, the shadow of another girl lingers—Azure, Indigo’s childhood companion who vanished without a trace. As the house begins to unravel its buried secrets, the bridegroom faces an impossible choice: embrace the truth or cling to the illusion of his marriage. Either choice may destroy them both.

With rich, spellbinding prose, Chokshi crafts a fever dream of a novel, where love and deception intertwine, and reality bends under the weight of long-held secrets.

"Chokshi’s tale is as sweet as a piece of fairy fruit, and just as wicked. Every bite is velvet, every swallow is gold, and the taste lingers like a fever dream." — V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

"Gorgeous and ornate, this sensual fairy tale illuminates the corrosive and redemptive power of both love and lies." — Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night