Harvest of Hell by Greg Stanina

A sweltering Florida road trip. A fifteen-year friendship on the verge of romance. And a thirteen-acre garden of pure, blood-soaked terror.

Nikki and Brian are platonic best friends driving an un-air-conditioned '84 VW Beetle through the sweltering backroads of rural Florida. When a spontaneous midnight swim finally sparks the romance they've avoided for fifteen years, their picture-perfect moment is shattered by a blood-curdling scream from the nearby woods.

Investigating the dark thicket, they stumble into a grueling, botanical nightmare: a sprawling garden of alien flora, fertilized with pulsing human blood. Cultivated by a deranged, scalpel-wielding botanist who sacrifices the living to feed his satanic shrubbery, the garden's thorny, flesh-eating vines are rapidly growing—and hungry for their next harvest.

Trapped miles from civilization, Nikki and Brian must trade their romantic confessions for garden tools, gas cans, and a desperate fight for survival. Plunged into a gruesome, high-octane battle against a madman and a monstrous hell-plant, they have to burn it all down before the vegetation consumes them whole.

Will their newly blooming love survive the night, or will they become the garden's next gruesome fertilizer?