The Language of Flowers

She fled her marriage with nothing but a coded letter and a single trunk. She never expected to find a woman who could actually see her.

Widowed at four-and-twenty with nowhere left to turn, Eliza Moreton arrives at Wyndermere Estate carrying a secret she doesn’t yet understand — and finds Beatrice Ashford, Countess of Wyndermere, guarding a far bigger one. Beatrice runs a hidden network of women who help each other disappear, survive, and start over, speaking in coded letters and the secret language of flowers. She hasn’t let anyone close in ten years. She isn’t planning to start with a penniless widow half her age.
But Eliza sees her — really sees her — in a way no one ever has, and as coded letters give way to quiet mornings in the greenhouse, careful walls start coming down on both sides. When a ruthless solicitor threatens to expose the society and everyone in it, Beatrice and Eliza will have to risk more than secrets to save what they’ve built. They’ll have to risk each other.