Waiting on Wednesday: The Forbidden Orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Title: The Forbidden Orchid 

Series: -

Author: Sharon Biggs Waller

Date Published: March 8th 2016 

Publisher: Viking

Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of ten sisters living  in a small English market town in 1861. The girls' father is a plant    hunter, usually off adventuring through the jungles of China. 

Then disaster strikes: Mr. Buchanan fails to collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid, meaning that he will be thrown into debtors' prison and the girls will be sent to the orphanage or the poorhouse. Elodie's father has one last chance to return to China, find the orchid, and save the family—and this time, thanks to an unforeseen twist of fate, Elodie is going with him. Elodie has never before left her village, but what starts as fear turns to wonder as she adapts to seafaring life aboard the tea clipper The Osprey, and later to the new sights, dangers, and romance of China. 

But even if she can find the orchid, how can she find herself now that staid, responsible Elodie has seen how much the world has to offer?

I've been waiting for this books since August of last year , I can't remember ever reading about a plant collector so it looks like it will have a pretty original plot.

 I've been waiting for this books since August of last year , I can't remember ever reading about a plant collector so it looks like it will have a pretty original plot.