Orchids in Moonlight
About
A reclusive, emotionally scarred billionaire.
A brilliant botanist hired to revive the dead heart of his estate.
A contract that was supposed to be about flowers — not feelings.
After a brutal trauma shattered her life, Dr. Sorrel Hollis has found solace only in the soil. She restores dying gardens because plants can’t hurt her. Homeless and desperate for a fresh start, she accepts a lucrative contract to revive the legendary lost gardens of a remote mountain estate — her one chance to rebuild in peace.
Kenton Wolcott, the estate’s mysterious owner, is as broken and guarded as the ruined land he commands. He lives in a glass house above the gardens, watching her work from a distance… until her quiet strength begins to awaken something in him he thought long dead.
Trapped together by the estate’s walls and their own haunted pasts, their professional arrangement turns into a slow, tentative, and irresistible pull. Each blooming flower strips away her defenses. Each shared silence chips at his cold facade.
But when their slow-burn passion ignites into high-heat desire, Sorrel must ask herself: is she just another beautiful project for a damaged man to cultivate, or can two people who’ve forgotten how to trust grow something real in a garden of secrets?
Orchids in Moonlight is a slow-burn, high-heat billionaire romance about healing, desire, and love that blooms in the most unlikely soil. Perfect for fans of emotional recovery love stories, forced proximity, and broken-but-beautiful heroes.
Praise for this book
Readers' Favorite - 5 Stars
Orchids in Moonlight by Riordan Yun is a really moving and achingly accurate look into how trauma can, and usually does, impact the very fibers of a woman's soul. Yun's handling of Sorrel's emotional collapse is sympathetically rendered, not used as a prop or a driver for the story, but as part of a healing arc for both Sorrel and Kenton. Perhaps the most interesting character to me is the formidable Winifred Spence, who comes across as something of a wild card. She is, quite literally, the gatekeeper to the gardens, keeping a tight rein on the spaces in the house and on the estate that are off-limits. The narrative is in the third person, although it operates in bursts of short, punchy sentences that have the feel of a stream-of-consciousness. Overall, this is a read that's worth the time commitment. Very highly recommended.