Freya Johansson

About

Her pristine rose garden masks a freezing interior where human connections wither like neglected stems—Freya cultivates beauty with the same precision she eliminates threats. Behind porcelain skin and surgical garden gloves lurks a calculator of cold, calculated eliminations that leave no trace except immaculate symmetry.

Backstory

The lullabies started as a way to quiet the screaming plants—or so Freya believed after her first botanical murder at age twelve, when she discovered that certain rare orchids could synthesize untraceable toxins if fed a diet of human bone meal. Her grandmother Rose hadn't taught her gardening out of love, but necessity, training Freya to cultivate death in plain sight after Rose's own string of "accidents" among the garden club members who dared criticize her prize-winning dahlias. When mysterious Henry appeared at the flower show with that peculiar carnivorous specimen, he wasn't a romantic stranger but a fellow collector who recognized the telltale phosphorescent glow of her hybrid poison ivy—and their marriage became a five-year partnership in perfecting botanical assassination until Freya discovered his plan to harvest her rarest specimens and eliminate the competition. Now her garden serves as both laboratory and graveyard, where she hums those same lullabies her grandmother taug

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