A clean Victorian Christian romance about two orphans, a London house divided by class, and a God who is still writing the story.

London, 1837. Patrick is nine years old when tuberculosis takes both of his parents. He is sent from the only home he has known to live with his aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Whitfield. In their house he meets Josie, a workhouse girl who never knew her parents and now scrubs the Whitfield kitchens as a scullery maid.

Friendship between them should be impossible. It becomes the truest thing either child has.

Then Lady Whitfield moves to settle an old score. Josie is gone. Separated by rank, by cruelty, and by forces he cannot yet name, Patrick has to find out what happened to the one person who saw him as more than an orphan with a future title. He will have to learn the strict social rules of his time. He will have to decide whether real love can survive the darkest corners of his life, and whether he can trust God for a greater plan.

Garden of Opportunities is Keira Cooley's debut novel: a wholesome coming-of-age historical romance for Christian young women, from thoughtful teens to the adults who still want a clean Victorian story of faith, friendship, and providence. No spice. No cynicism. Plenty of heart.