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Veridian Grave
Paperback
Publisher: Antillas Publishing House
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Beauty is rarely innocent. In the Glass Cathedral, it is lethal.
Yorkshire, 1893. Julian Croft is a botanical illustrator with a disgraced reputation and an eye for the impossible. When the reclusive Lady Beatrice Vance offers him a fortune to document a single event, he cannot refuse. Her prize specimen, the Crimson Widow-a rare, carnivorous orchid brought from the deepest Amazon-is set to bloom for the first time in a century.
But Vance Manor is not a sanctuary of science. It is a tomb disguised as a garden. As Julian sketches in the suffocating heat of the massive iron-and-glass conservatory, he realizes the soil beneath his feet is unnaturally rich, and the magnificent flora seems to watch him with a hungry intelligence.
The previous gardeners didn't quit; they were composted. And Lady Vance isn't just a collector; she is a dying woman who believes the orchid's nectar is the only cure. But the Crimson Widow demands a price for its miracle. It doesn't just need water and light to bloom-it needs a sacrifice of intellect and blood. And Julian has been groomed to be the main course.
In Veridian Grave, Vesper Blackwood cultivates a lush, suffocating nightmare where the most dangerous trap is the one that smells the sweetest.
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