For a private investigator like Silas Vance, drowning in debt and cheap whiskey, a case is a case. But when the enigmatic Eleonora Sterling hires him to find a stolen flower, he's pulled into a world far darker than Sterling City’s rain-slicked streets.

The target isn't just a plant; it's the Midnight Orchid—a priceless, one-of-a-kind specimen that vanished from a sealed conservatory without a trace. An impossible, phantom theft.

Vance’s investigation plunges him into a shadowy circle of obsessive collectors and bitter rivals, where everyone has a secret. He soon discovers the orchid is more than a botanical treasure; it’s the key to a conspiracy of greed and murder. He was hired to find a flower, but to solve the case, he’ll have to unearth a truth that was meant to stay buried forever.