Garden

by Paul Perry

'The garden is dying. Once an Edenic orchid farm, it has been decimated by the worst hurricane in Florida's living memory. Its glasshouses are shattered, the surrounding mangroves encroach and it laborer's are dangerously idle. When Romeo - an expert breeder of the endangered ghost orchid arrives from Honduras, Blanchard the keeper of the Garden, and Swallow his Irish lieutenant, believe their fortunes are on the rise. Romeo may not be all that he seems though, and Swallow can sense the newcomer shaking the Garden's creaking hierarchy. The ghost orchid they seek is infamously rare, a...