Description
For ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, Martha's Vineyard isn't just a home--it's a way of life. If there's anything worth learning about the island, she usually knows it. But even Victoria is in for a few surprises when a big-money developer sets his sights on two hundred acres of prime real estate -- and she finds his underhanded lawyer pushing up daisies.
Then a local conservation group asks Victoria to search the land for protected plants in order to keep the bulldozers at bay. Before long, her hunt for rare cranefly orchids has her headed down a twisted path of family secrets, greed, and unsettled scores. And if she's not careful, a killer might take her off the endangered list--and make her extinct....