Summary

Miel walks from her house over to the Bonner pumpkin farm in the middle of the night, and privately resolves that she will not allow the Bonner sisters to bully her around. When she returns home, Aracely is still awake. They talk about how Emma Owens, the secretary at Miel’s high school, and also Aracely’s most loyal customer for lovesickness cures, is due to come by the house sooner rather than later.

After a week goes by, at the start of the chapter "Lake of Death," another rose grows on Miel’s wrist, she cuts it off without giving it over to the Bonners. One afternoon she visits Sam in the Bonner pumpkin fields, giving him a kiss. Minutes later, as Miel is walking, Ivy runs into her and invites her to come see something. Ivy takes Miel to a secluded...