The lady's slipper - Deborah Swift

It is 1660. The King is back, but the wounds of the Civil War remain. Alice Ibbetson is captivated by the rare lady's slipper orchid growing on the land of converted Quaker, Richard Wheeler. Determined to capture and preserve its beauty, one night she steals the flower. Fired by his newfound faith, the former soldier Wheeler feels bound to return the orchid to its rightful home. But others are equally eager to lay hands on it. Margaret Poulter, a local medicine woman, is seduced by the lady's slipper's mysterious medicinal powers, while Geoffrey Fisk, Alice's patron, sees the plant as a way to cure his own agonising illness.