Publisher's Synopsis
Santo Domingo in 1802. Pretty Charlotte Brockmarche with her dark curls with romantic novels to read and her feisty red-haired sister Emma to share them with. Handsome Pinckney Ashe with his icicle blue eyes to love and share quince ices with as the sun dips in the sea off the Battery in Charleston. Marriage, rice country and a house entirely done over as a bridal gift with yellow wallpaper covered with parrots straight from Paris for a touch of home. But Pinckney turning into something strange with a smell of rotten flowers in the air wafting over from the cottage next door with its black covered windows so no one can look. Join Charlotte Brockmarche Ashe as she lives from one letter from Emma to the next with a mind beginning to addle from the scent of bad perfume. To stay or to go. A need to know soon.
