Charlotte's POV

PRESENT DAY

When I got up this morning, I decided to ask if I could take a walk in the gardens. In my old life, that would have been what I would do on a warm autumn morning like this. My house had the most beautiful garden. I had been working on restoring it to its former glory when I'd wound up in here, and I missed it.

I wondered if anything could possibly have survived a year without being tended to. ...