Along Came Tess (Diamonds of London, #6)

Life can either snake around you with a strangle hold or produce the most exquisite flowers…

At the advanced age of six and thirty, Mr. Jameson Ridley has become content with what he wants out of life. After spending years in India studying the care and cultivation of tea, he became a botanist who specializes in flowers and vines. When he's invited to his best friend's estate in the Irish countryside, he accepts with alacrity, for the opportunity to catalogue the flora there can't be missed...