""The night the Mounties came, my sleep had already been disturbed by a small but insistent wail coming from the garden below my bedroom window. There was a baby in my cabbage patch." And so begins the tale of Arlys, who grows vegetables and roses, and Chicory, the baby she adopts and nurtures in a farmhouse on a small coastal island. Can she keep Chicory safe forever or will the girl eventually fall in love with a damaged prince, will the carefully constructed edifice of motherhood and care survive or collapse, taking the roses down with it?
