Part of Rose Gardner Mystery
First published 2014
Rose Gardner is keeping her hands in the dirt and her mind off her broken heart. She throws herself into her landscaping business in Henryetta, Arkansas, but the work stops feeling like a refuge when her employee and friend Bruce Wayne Decker vanishes without explanation. At the same time, assistant D.A. Mason Deveraux has been waiting for Rose to let him in, and she knows she owes it to herself to figure out where she came from before she can move forward with anyone. She wants the truth about her birth mother. Then the news hits: Daniel Crocker, the drug lord whose arrest shook Fenton County six months ago, has broken out of prison. Crocker has not forgotten Rose. He comes after her with patience and menace, turning the hunt into a slow game that leaves Mason and the sheriff's department scrambling. They move Rose to her birth mother's farm to keep her safe. She is searching for her origins and running for her life at the same time, and the two problems are closing in from opposite directions.
Genres: american-fiction, mystery, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, on-the-run, protective-love-interest, second-chance-romance
Setting: Henryetta, Arkansas, Fenton County
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
358 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: drug-use, kidnapping, violence