Sakura Yoshiharu sees the world in blueprints. A seventeen-year-old inventor who orders her life with the precision of someone who believes tidiness is its own kind of faith, she has built her corner of the school robotics club into something that runs exactly as it should. She prefers it that way.
But the world does not run on blueprints.
When a mystery surfaces within the club she has dedicated herself to, Sakura finds herself pulled into questions she cannot systematize: about loyalty, about the people she loves, and about what it means to feel something she has no name for.
Set in Japan in 2010, When Blossoms Meet the Sunny Air is the first book in The Cherry that Snows trilogy. It is a speculative literary fiction about a mind that sorts the world into clean categories, and the quiet devastation of discovering that some things refuse to be sorted.