Flower of Love

By Janet Louise Roberts

Book Overview

Unsurpassed passion in the flower fields of France This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449201651
• ISBN13: 9780449201657
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

stop and smell the roses

In 1890, Jacinth Essex leaves Virginia for the estate of Roland St. Amour in France, accompanied by her wealthy father, Harold, and her self-serving stepmother, Delia. Although Jacinth is there only to learn about perfumes, the St. Amour family encourages a match between her and their son, Oliver. However, it is Oliver's cousin, Lorenz, who is immediately attracted to Jacinth the moment they meet. Presently, Harold leaves to attend to business at home and Delia remains to chaperone Jacinth. While Jacinth and Lorenz become close and are involved with trying to create new perfumes --- a difficult and rare accomplishment involving much skill --- Delia creates scandals with Oliver and one of the field hands. The potential scandal may be enough to force the Essex women to leave and Lorenz decides that he loves Jacinth too much to let her leave and tricks her into spending the night with him. The ensuing scandal forces them into marriage, just as Lorenz had planned. While Jacinth is initially angry, she eventually realizes that she, too, loves Lorenz and much prefers him to any of the elderly suitors her father had planned to marry her off to. The story continues with Jacinth's attempts to create a new perfume for her new friend, a Russian princess. Delia continues with her indiscretions and everyone awaits Harold's arrival to see what he will do about his wife's notorious conduct and his daughter's scandalous marriage. While the plot centers a lot around the perfume making business, it remained interesting enough that the pace did not suffer. Delia's amorous antics are in direct contrast to Jacinth's romance with Lorenz and kept the story from being potentially too saccharine.