Ugly Botany

By Ralph Burton

Aboard a steam train heading into the heart of Colonial Africa, scrawny botany student D.D. Roswell learns his professor's dark secret. Virgil Perkins and his wife Cecilia have been single-handedly sustaining the British Empire via unspeakable bedroom antics. Long ago Cecilia's father made a deal with the devil to ensure that if his daughter slept with her lover every night, the Empire would never die. If, however, she spent the night alone, all hell would break loose. It is then D.D. learns Cecilia is missing, and Virgil has come to Africa to find her. Though, outside, the sun is setting, the crocodiles in the lake are getting hungry, and D.D. knows what his professor must face: no Empire -- especially not this one -- should last forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DX1G7446
• ISBN13: 9798307816707
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"