Wild orchids

"From author Jude Deveraux comes a story of love, tragedy, and mystery in a small North Carolina town brimming with secrets."@en
"The story of a famous mystery writer, recently widowed and still devastated by his wife's death, and his lively and beautiful young assistant. As the assistant rekindles the writer's penchant for excitement and passion, the two are drawn to the mysteries presented by a legendary ghost story that still haunts the small North Carolina town where they live."@en
"The story of a famous mystery writer, recently widowed and still devastated by his wife's death, and his lively and beautiful young assistant. As the assistant rekindles the writer's penchant for excitement and passion, the two are drawn to the mysteries presented by a legendary ghost story that still haunts the small North Carolina town where they live."
"A widower whose writing career has suffered since his wife's death hires a university researcher to help him with the work on his new book about a young woman's friendship with the devil and what happened to her."@en
"Since his wife's death, world-famous author Ford Newcombe has lived a solitary life, void of creativity -- or love. Then Jackie Maxwell tears down the walls of his isolated world with her sassy wit and fierce intelligence."
"A recently widowed mystery novelist experiences a reawakening of his emotions in a new relationship with his assistant, in a romance set against a decades-old ghost story in North Carolina."