{"product_id":"the-ghost-orchid-a-novel","title":"The Ghost Orchid: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her enthralling novels of literary suspense  Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now  with The Ghost Orchid  a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present  Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date.  For more than one hundred years  creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence  inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary  these chosen few fashion masterworksand have cemented Boscos reputation as a premier artists colony. This season  five talented artists-in-residence find themselves drawn to the history of Bosco  from the extensive network of fountains that were once its centerpiece but have long since run dry to the story of its enigmatic founder  Aurora Latham  and the series of tragic events that occurred more than a century ago.  Ellis Brooks  a first-time novelist  has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora and the infamous summer of 1893  when wealthy  powerful Milo Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the estate to help his wife contact three of the couples children  lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic. But when a sance turned deadly  Corinth and her alleged accomplice  Tom Quinn  disappeared  taking with them the Lathams only surviving child.  The more time she spends at Bosco  the more Ellis becomes convinced that there is an even darker  more sinister end to the story. And shes not alone: biographer Bethesda Graham uncovers stunning revelations about Milo and Corinth; landscape architect David Fox discovers a series of hidden tunnels underneath the gardens; poet Zalman Bronsky hears the long-dry fountains waters beckoning him; and novelist Nat Loomis feels something lingering just out of reach.  After a bizarre series of accidents befalls them  the group cannot deny the connections between the long ago and now  the living and the dead . . . as Ellis realizes that the tangled truth may ensnare them all in its cool embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984060772405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345462149","price":59.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345462145.jpg?v=1770820984","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ghost-orchid-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}