No Orchids by Request

by Essie Summers

When an old friend gifted Elizabeth Lucinda Stirling a cottage on the Banks Peninsula, she leaped at the chance to leave the daily grind of newspaper life and focus on writing her novels. It was a pity that her new editor was as interested in romancing her as in editing her columns; it was more of a pity that her leaving the newspaper didn’t discourage him in his attentions; it was even more of a pity that he had a disreputable past that had ended in a broken marriage…but most of all it was a pity that Elizabeth couldn’t help liking him more than any man she had ever known, and couldn’t help longing for his company. Was Jeremy Ffoulkes still the unreliable Jeremy of the past? Or should Elizabeth gamble that his love for her was true?

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
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