Karen Hugg

(spoilers): Harvesting the Sky is about a botanist, Andre Damazy, who discovers a rare medicinal apple in Kazakhstan before bringing it back to Paris and growing its trees in a secret greenhouse. The issue is personal for him since this special apple super charges the immune system and may be able to help many ill people, especially people like his mother who's suffered a stroke. But an unknown stranger harasses Andre, threatening him with phone calls and notes, before vandalizing his greenhouse and trees. While Andre isn't sure why he's being targeted, he wonders if it's related to a mistake he made in his past, related to an elderly woman and his father's orchard business in California. As Andre struggles to keep the trees safe, he enlists the help of Renia, a plant shop manager who was the main character in The Forgetting Flower. She knows how to keep the greenhouse secure and may or may not return the growing love Andre is beginning to feel for her. When the stranger attacks Renia one night, Andre turns furious, taking the matter into his own hands, ultimately finding and confronting the stranger in a dark alley. He discovers the stranger is a member of an extremist religious group who believe Andre is doing the work of the devil. In a struggle, the stranger gets away and after a chase, Andre's left with a broken arm. At Andre's lowest point, he's left battered and sleeping in his greenhouse, paranoid at what his adversary might do. Then, during a brief trip away, the stranger sets fire to the greenhouse and burns all of Andre's trees. After the police arrest the stranger and Andre thinks his entire project is lost, Renia presents him with the original sapling he brought back from Kazakhstan, ensuring he can propagate the trees again.

Harvesting the Sky, Volume 2

How to Destress and Grow Happiness Through Plants

Leaf Your Troubles Behind

Dark Petals of Provence

Vero Leclaire has moved back home to care for her sick cat Sophie while her mom is in rehab. But after Sophie flatlines from a heart attack and is revived by a vet, she leads Vero to the woods and a tree hollow where a strange humming emanates. Unsure whether the tree is haunted or she's imagining things, Vero goes on a quest to solve the puzzle, finding an exotic fern, a Native medallion, and an old cassette tape, which together unravel the truth about her dark family history. In the end, Vero must battle not only her penchant for living in the past but save her mom before she dies at the hands of a person who knows what's buried beneath the tree.

Book One in the Verdant Souls Series

Song of the Tree Hollow

A secret, a memory, a scent, a death. Renia thought the distance between Poland and Paris would be enough for her to outrun blackmarket mobsters who will do anything to get their hands on Renia's most prized possession: a rare flower that emits a fragrance that can erase a person's memory---and potentially do more damage than that.

Karen Hugg

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