A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller.
From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful
and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First
World War.
As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong
twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war
effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that
she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him
and accepts his proposal of marriage.
When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a "land girl,"
tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It's here
that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who
devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and
in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily's
lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified--and with
child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the
charade of a war widow.
As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the
found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a
path to her destiny.
