"Every garden is a story, waiting to be told...At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate. Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked...

Mrs. Marrable, a very polite and well-bred widow, has trouble keeping housekeepers. Five have vanished. With each disappearance, a young pine tree has been planted in the Marrable garden!