ROMANCE

The Orchids of Ashthorne Hall

Shadow Mountain. Apr. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781639932351. pap. $16.99. HISTORICAL ROMANCE
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When Hyacinth Bell travels to Ashthorne Hall, where she’s been hired to care for a nobleman’s extensive orchid collection, she discovers that her new home is rather foreboding and soon glimpses a figure in white on the estate. Could it be a ghost? She also meets the caretaker, Lucas Harding, and the two instantly develop a close romantic bond. Hyacinth is determined to figure out who Ashthorne Hall’s ghost is, but her investigations lead her to realize there is someone much more sinister in the manor. Hyacinth suspects that Lucas knows something about the ghost and the intruder, but he is unwilling to trust her with his secret. After the greenhouse is broken into, with the plants uprooted and littered throughout the space, Hyacinth is willing to risk her safety to discover the culprit and unearth Lucas’s secret at the same time.
VERDICT In Anderson’s (The Art of Love and Lies) latest, the ghost’s tragic story, relayed through laments at the start of each chapter, and Hyacinth’s quest to discover more about the ghost will take readers through a whirlwind of emotions, much more so than the rushed romance between Lucas and Hyacinth.
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