Blooming Series

What do you do when the future isn’t a bed of roses? Lydia has spent three years of her life working on what now seems to be a worthless degree. Every job she applies for needs years of work experience and she has precisely none. The only spark of hope comes when her boyfriend, Jake, manages to land her a role as a gardening volunteer at Heathley Park and Gardens, but when she meets the head gardener, Scott, her hopes are crushed. Far from being the opportunity of her dreams, Heathley Park and Gardens is one big nightmare! Will she ever be able to prove to both Scott and herself that she should be taken seriously as a gardener?  It doesn’t help that someone has a vendetta against the Heathley gardeners. A vandal is running rampant through the park and gardens and unless they uncover the culprit, Heathley could be just one scuttled boat away from a lawsuit! Lydia is about to discover that love, life, and landscape gardening, is definitely not a bed of roses.

What do you do when a secret becomes a thorn in your side?  Lydia and Scott are looking forward to a quiet New Year at Heathley Park and Gardens after the Christmas nightmare and the attempts made on their lives. Fate has other ideas. A tyrannical new addition to the gardens brings big changes, and everything Scott and Lydia love is about to be torn apart.  When Scott accepts an opportunity to work on a private garden hidden behind some very high walls, Lydia knows there’s something he’s not telling her.  Then a body is found at Heathley and Lydia starts to suspect she may not know the man she loves as well as she thinks… Please note, this book is written in British English and contains British spellings. Genres: Drama, coming of age, British humour and satire, cozy mystery. Romance: Please note, while the romance is never explicit, it is suggestive at times.  Language: Very mild language occasionally used.

Lydia’s new found love is already off to a rocky start. When her mother gives her an ultimatum – get a proper job, or work as a checkout girl forever – Lydia realises her time at Heathley could already be at an end. Everything rests on a single job interview, and she’s not the only contender! An old enemy is ready to do all he can to make her slip up and a ridiculously competent stranger seems sure to clinch the gardening role. But someone isn’t willing to let the job go without a fight and they’re already planning their revenge on Heathley… Are Lydia’s green fingers enough to save her?

Who knew flowers could keep so many secrets?  Lydia and Scott want to make a new start. When they are offered a position working as a gardening couple at Green Acres in Cornwall, they jump at the chance to get away but it turns out that miles aren’t enough to put their past behind them… Scott’s strange personality change, mysterious phone conversations, and an unexplained journey back home, make Lydia believe her boyfriend is hiding something. With two recent unsolved suspicious deaths and the theft of a famous racehorse at the forefront of her mind, she starts to suspect that Scott’s secrecy could be tied up with murder.  Will Lydia solve the mystery in time to save Scott’s life? Please note, this book is written in British English and contains British spellings. Genres: Mystery, Drama, coming of age, British humour and satire.  Romance: Please note, while the romance is never explicit, it is suggestive at times.  Language: Very mild language occasionally used.

Is turning over a new leaf the key to a happy ending?  After receiving an unexpected windfall, Lydia and Scott decide to take a break from the drama of gardening. They soon discover that setting down the spade isn’t as easy as they’d thought. After a successful landscaping job in rural France, they begin to toy with the idea of settling there for good. Unfortunately, fate and a neurotic local have other ideas… Will Scott’s darkest secret continue to haunt his future?  What will Lydia do when Scott wakes up one morning with a mysterious wedding ring on his finger and no idea how it got there? Lydia may finally be about to solve the biggest mystery of all, but is turning over a new leaf really the key to a happy ending? Please note, this book is written in British English and contains British spellings. Genres: Drama, coming of age, British humour and satire, cozy mystery.  Romance: Clean romance.  Language: No bad language.

Heathley has a murderer in its midst, and it’s not long before they make their first strike… Christmas has come to the gardens and a Christmas makeover team have been hired to turn traditional, fuddy-duddy Heathley, into a modern winter wonderland - fit to draw in the Christmas crowds. Predictably, this doesn’t go down well with the gardeners, who are horror stricken when their rare plants are mushed beyond recognition by giant inflatable snowmen and plastic icicles. Lydia has bigger things to worry about. She’s moving in with a man who loves her, but so far, she’s been unable to say those three little words back to him. How do you know when you’re in love? Lydia keeps waiting for it to hit her like a chair to the face, or even creep up slowly, but so far… there’s been no Christmas miracle and she’s beginning to wonder: When is it time to nip love in the bud? Then one fateful winter’s night, Lydia and Scott are left fighting for their lives. Is dying what it takes to figure out how you really feel about someone?