![]() Then, when Alice Ibbetson is implicated in a brutal murder, she is imprisoned along with the suspected anti-royalist Wheeler. Fearing that Wheeler and his new friends are planning revolution, Fisk sends his son Stephen to spy on the Quakers, only for the young man to find his loyalties divided as he befriends the group he has been sent to investigate. Margaret Poulter, a local medicine woman, is seduced by the orchid's mysterious herbal powers, while Sir Geoffrey Fisk, Alice's patron and a former comrade-in-arms of Wheeler, sees the valuable plant as a way to repair his ailing fortunes and cure his own agonizing illness. Meanwhile, others are eager to lay hands on the flower, and have their own powerful motives. Fired by his newfound faith, the former soldier Wheeler feels bound to track down the missing orchid. She is determined to capture its unique beauty for posterity, even if it means stealing the flower from the land of recently converted Quaker, Richard Wheeler. In rural Westmorland, artist Alice Ibbetson has become captivated by the rare Lady's Slipper orchid. ![]() The King is back, but memories of the Civil War still rankle. ![]()
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