"Terrific … compelling … an intoxicating blend of mystery, history and romance, this book is hard to put down." --Real Simple  On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later, garden designer Addison takes up residence at the manor, now owned by the family of her husband, Rex. The couple’s shared passion for mysteries is fueled by the enchanting camellia orchard and an old gardener’s notebook. Yet its pages hint at dark acts ingeniously concealed. If the danger that Flora once faced remains very much alive, will Addison share her fate?

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle’s Lake Union—home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959.   Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor’s fate, but little suspects that Penny’s mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.

The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight MoonGoodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby’s estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children’s bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. Amidst the store’s papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown—and steps into the pages of American literature.

Mavi kelebeklerin hikâyesini bilir misiniz? Mavi kelebekleri her yerde göremezsiniz. Oldukça nadir görülürler. Sabah uyandığınızda, "Bugün mavi kelebekleri görmeye gidiyorum," diyemezsiniz. Siz onları değil, onlar sizi bulur. Efsaneye göre bu kelebekler, değişimin habercisidir. Olur da gün doğumunda yolunuzu bir mavi kelebek keserse, bilin ki artık hayatınız eskisi gibi olmayacaktır. Ne hayatınız ne kaderiniz ne şansınız... Artık bildiklerinizi unutun. Belki bambaşka biri girer hayatınıza. Belki bambaşka bir yerde uyanırsınız. Ya da ilk kez adımınızı attığınız bir yerde kendinizi hiç olmadığınız kadar huzurlu ve evinizde hissedersiniz. Kaybolurken bulunursunuz. Geldiğinizi sanarken gittiğinizi görürsünüz. Hayata başka bakarsınız mavi bir kelebek kanat çırptığında, çünkü size başka bakıyordur artık hayat.

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter--taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs to work the night-shift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May-Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her son has vanished. Outside, she finds his beloved teddy bear lying face-down on an icy street, the snow covering up any trace of his tracks, or the perpetrator's.Seattle, 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to cover the May 1 "blackberry winter" storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. In the process, she finds that she and Vera may be linked in unexpected ways...