Forbidden Garden

Anne Sherwood has made her life into a safe orderly garden. She draws the plants of Londons famous Kew Gardens an entirely suitable occupation for a widowed lady in Queen Victorias England. Then a compelling invitation takes her to Ireland to sketch a recently discovered tree...a golden sapling with unusual qualities and even more mysterious origins. Determined to learn more Anne finds herself confronting Michael McEvoy an enigmatic figure who prefers the lonliness of the wild to society and its entrapments.Michaels heart beats to the rhythm of the land. The ebb and flow of the seasons and the cadence are his calendar and clock. When the prim Englishwoman arrives he is stunned to discover her conventional exterior hides a kindred spirit one as sensitive as he to growing things...his perfect mate. But as much as he longs to make her his they must first expose the origins of the sapling and the dangerous corruption of nature that it represents...