
Heiress and botanist Gwen teams with Irish lawyer Patrick to confront a decades-old family mystery amid growing danger and attraction in 1900s New York.
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Heiress and botanist Gwen teams with Irish lawyer Patrick to confront a decades-old family mystery amid growing danger and attraction in 1900s New York.
Her gilded world holds a deeply hidden secret. After years of tragedy, Gwen Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist at an idyllic New York college. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family's heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the downtrodden Irish immigrants in his community. He's proud of his work, even though he struggles to afford his ramshackle law offi...
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Romantic tension and attraction develop between protagonists
References to danger and past family tragedy
Minimal language consistent with Christian fiction
Social drinking in historical early-20th-century setting
No LGBTQ+ representation
Christian faith elements integrated into characters and themes
No magic or witchcraft
No occult content
Themes of immigration, social justice, and corporate corruption
No self-harm or suicide depicted
Family scandal, tragedy, and legal conflicts over corruption
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