Robin Farrar Maass Releases The Book The Walled Garden

Published: Sept. 8, 2022, midnight

American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England with high hopes. She aims to finish her graduate studies, write her dissertation, and most of all, she is ambitious to solve a longstanding literary mystery. But as she begins to piece together the correspondence between her grandmother and famous poet and garden writer Elizabeth Blackspear, she discovers a series of coded messages hidden within the letters. Lucy has no time to be falling in love between studying and sleuthing— but she did not account for the handsome Scottish contractor with whom she keeps crossing paths.

Amid her search, Lucy stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and her mission shifts: she must put a stop to it. As Lucy races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.