Publisher's Synopsis
Book Four in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery Series.While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister-and business partner-Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime, Fenton County assistant D.A., Mason Deveraux has been patiently waiting to begin a relationship with Rose, but she realizes she needs to confront the demons of her past before she can embrace a new future. She needs to find out the truth about her birth mother.But her past isn't her only demon. An undercurrent of tension has been spreading through Henryetta, Arkansas since drug lord, Daniel Crocker's arrest six months ago. Still, she's not prepared for a nightmare come true: Crocker's escape from prison. Crocker carries a grudge and he's determined to make Rose pay, but he plays a game of cat and mouse, forcing Mason and the Fenton County Sheriff's department to hide Rose on her birth mother's farm. But will it be enough to save her?Rose Gardner Mystery series Twenty-Eight and a Half WishesTwenty-Nine and a Half ReasonsThirty and a Half ExcusesThirty-One and a Half RegretsThirty-Two and a Half ComplicationsPicking up the Pieces (novella)Thirty-Three and a Half ShenanigansRipple of Secrets (novella)Thirty-Four and a Half PredicamentsThirty-Five and a Half ConspiraciesThirty-Six and a Half MotivesSins of the Father (novella) Rose Gardner Investigations Family JewelsTrailer Trash (Neely Kate companion book)For the BirdsHell in a Handbasket
