The Last Camellia

 The Last Camellia is a book written by Sarah Jio.  The story revolves around two women living in a manor house in England. The first woman is Flora. Flora lives with her parents and helps them run a bakery. Financially the bakery isn't doing well. Her father insists on giving bread away for free is people are impoverished. A man offers her a large sum of money if she will go to England and pose as a nanny at a manor house. This is before World War Two. She takes a boat to England and gets the job as a nanny to four young children who just lost their mother. She is being paid to find a rare camellia. There is no way to find it unless it blooms. The man who hired her is putting pressure on her to find it. Eventually she learns that her father is ill and she goes back to New York City. Fifty years later Addison comes to the manor which is now owned by her parents-in-law. She tries to figure out the history of the people in this house. She comes across Flora's artwork. But she is in danger from a boy she lived with in her childhood. He is a sociopath and he is bound and determined to hurt her. Eventually she finds a locket. Inside that locket is a seed for that rare camellia. The seed is still viable so now there is another camellia tree growing. This was a good mystery and historical fiction story.