Thorn in His Side

A Midlife Regency Romance

By: Elena Rosewood

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Lady Margaret Wetherby has three great loves: silence, solitude, and her prize-winning English roses.

At fifty-two, Margaret has cultivated a life as pristine and thorny as her garden. She has no patience for fools, no desire for a second husband, and absolutely no tolerance for the chaotic jungle currently sprouting over the garden wall of the neighboring estate.

Captain Charles Pendeen didn’t survive the Napoleonic Wars to be told where to plant his rhododendrons.

Retired, restless, and possessing a booming voice that frightens the local vicar, Charles attacks horticulture with military precision and zero subtlety. He finds his neighbor, Lady Margaret, to be insufferably haughty—and, much to his annoyance, the most stimulating woman he has met in decades.

But when a legendary prize is announced, the garden gloves come off.

The Royal Horticultural Society is hunting for the mythical Blue Orchid, believed to be extinct. When Margaret discovers the last viable seeds hidden in her late husband’s journals, she becomes the target of a desperate, high-society thief. Suddenly, the man destroying her view is the only man capable of saving her legacy.

Forced into an uneasy alliance to catch the culprit at the Chelsea Flower Show, Margaret and Charles must swap trowels for spycraft. But as they protect the fragile bloom, they discover that the only thing more dangerous than a thief in the night is the terrifying, exhilarating risk of opening their hearts one last time.