Description Please Note: This book is currently available for delivery to the UK only. Professor Eustacia Rose is trying to get her old life back. But as always, things get more complicated when poisonous plants - and people - start to disappear . . . After a turbulent police investigation comes to an end, Professor Rose is on her own personal mission. With a new lease of life after discovering her birth mother and reuniting with a long-lost plant, Eustacia finds herself with burning questions. Who destroyed her garden in the first place and will she ever find the rest of her stolen poisonous plants?Eustacia wants to ask for help from DCI Roberts - but risking the confiscation of any more plants is too dangerous.She begins a solitary journey into the world of rare and unusual botanicals and, surprisingly, encounters a similarly remarkable acquaintance. But when they delve deeper into the art of organised plant theft, Professor Rose realises that it is not only plants who can mysteriously disappear as Jessica, her mother, suddenly vanishes.With an unlikely team of helpers, Eustacia must navigate carefully in order to hold on to her remaining family and find out who destroyed her life's work. Oh . . . and then there's a small matter of a baby. Product Details Published: 22 May 2025Format: 210x170mm, paperbackExtent: 304 pagesISBN: 9781785307331 Pre-Order Information Dispatch Information: Your book will be dispatched before the publication date (22/05/2025). Please allow up to 7 working days after this for delivery. Address Updates: If you need to update your delivery address, please contact us before 08/05/2025 by emailing [email protected]. If we have not confirmed your change of address by 10/05/2025, please do contact us again. Address updates after 10/05/2025 cannot be accommodated. Cancellation Policy: If you wish to cancel your order, please contact [email protected] before 08/05/2025. Order cancellations after this date cannot be accommodated, and will be subject to our Returns Policy. Other Information: This book is currently available for delivery to the UK only. Your payment will be taken upon ordering. Any requests to personalise, sign or dedicate copies cannot be accommodated. Black & White Publishing shall use its best endeavours to fulfil all copies as ordered within the timescale specified but where the failure to do so is caused by something outside its reasonable control, including but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, pandemic, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure, the Publishers shall only be obliged to supply a first edition copy at a time when such product is available. If the Publishers are unable to supply a copy of the book, on or before 19/09/2025, then the customer may request a full refund. The Publishers reserve the right to make reasonable amends to these Terms and Conditions from time to time, at their sole discretion. For any queries with your order, please contact [email protected]. Author Jill Johnson has lived in South-East Asia, Europe and New Zealand. She obtained a B.A. Degree in Landscape Design. She has previously owned an editorial cartoon gallery, a comic shop and has been involved in a graphic novel publishing house. She is a Faber Academy graduate and now lives in Brighton with her children. Jill's writing is inspired by her Maori heritage. Her debut novel Devil's Breath was a BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club pick.
