#paperback#teen#ya#youngadult#fiction#youngadultfiction#teenfiction#deathanddying#death#dying Front cover is almost coming off. About the book: This is how it happened. Left on her own when her family died in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere. Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, reading the girl she'd once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story.