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"A sense of unreality crept over her as she realized that her unplanned afternoon expedition had led to his home. Plants turn, as they grow, in the direction of the sun. Did he exert some strange influence that drew her to him?"

"A sense of unreality crept over her as she realized that her unplanned afternoon expedition had led to his home. Plants turn, as they grow, in the direction of the sun. Did he exert some strange influence that drew her to him?"

In this book the main character is the outcast. Beatrix Farrand is a trail blazer, as she is one of the first female landscape designers in America. However, many people do not support her decision, as a result of the traditional view that women are supposed to be a caretaker and nothing more. But Beatrix loves horticulture, and it determined to pursue it, despite being looked down upon by others in the story.