Mystery
The Last Camellia
2013·320 pages
A dual-timeline gothic mystery links a WWII-era botanist’s dangerous mission with a modern woman’s discovery of dark secrets at an English manor.
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A dual-timeline gothic mystery links a WWII-era botanist’s dangerous mission with a modern woman’s discovery of dark secrets at an English manor.
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"On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later, garden designer Addison takes up residence a...
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Central dual-timeline romances; attraction and intimacy kept non-explicit
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Disappearances and concealed murders drive the mystery; peril without gore
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WWII-era setting supplies light historical-political backdrop
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Stalking, women vanishing to foul play, and threatening past secrets
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