An Orchid on Lifandoy

An Orchid on Lifandoy - by George B. Hill

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The second story in the lives of Timothy Corn and his girlfriend Jessica, on the small island of Lifandoy, begins with a mysterious tragedy and a spectacular accident.

The tragedy involves an exceptionally rare flower. The location of a beautiful wild Lady’s Slipper Orchid, found growing on the island, is hidden in a coded message. But what dark event has silenced its sender; and who is racing in an expensive powerboat toward Lifandoy?

By chance a different ORCHID, an experimental rescue rocket, is due to be tested at sea that day. The two incidents become linked by a dramatic accident, leading to urgent searches for both “orchids” across the small island. Tim and Jessica become involved in both, while Tim’s dangerously helpful Uncle Wilfred, Jessica’s scheming young sisters Alice and Rosalind, plus some of Tim’s former drinking cronies and the invasion of Lifandoy by the Press, all add complications. More serious problems for Tim and his nature colleagues include both a conflict with his ideological enemy Graham Fytts, and the arrival of murky international politics on quiet Lifandoy.

Tim struggles to explain the evil which drives people like these. Meanwhile, Jessica has been trying for a long time to come to terms with her father’s death. Reading an old Bible, her only memento of him, she discovers a series of women in its pages whose lives seem to have a strange echo in her own. What have their experiences to do with the loss of her father’s lifeboat, and her relationship with the new lifeboat’s crew?

Finally, will the desperate searches locate either of the “orchids” in time? Will Jessica’s sharp brains lead to a great discovery? How can they all defeat the wicked Raymond Azhaderian and rescue priceless treasures from him? How might Alice create a horrifying peril? What terrible event could change the lives of both Jessica and Tim in ways they had not imagined? How will grinning Uncle Wilfred manage to help his hapless friend Jack Dooley to yet another hilarious disaster? And where is that rocket, after all?


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