Barbara L. reviewed on 8/1/2011 + 988 more book reviews

When Jamie Gibson inherits Wickersham Priory, she moves to England to cultivate a new life on the massive 200-acre estate. But the once-grand gardens are now in disrepair, their overgrowth obscuring pathways and erasing buildings. Jamie vows to restore the gardens in honor of her benefactor, who happens to be a complete stranger.

She hires Lawrence Kingston, a retired professor of botany, to reproduce the gardens from their heyday. Unable to tame his curiosity, Lawrence begins investigating why Jamie was named heir to this vast fortune. His interest grows when he discovers the old Wickersham well that now holds human bonesand the truth of a long-ago murder.

Kingstons meddling has tilled up the past, but when workers on their project keep turning up dead, he and Jamie must escape their present thorny situationor they too risk being buried amidst the gardens secrets.

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