Nipped in the Bud

WHEN YOU FIND YOUR BOSS PUSHING UP DAISIES. . .
Life in full bloom, landscape designer, Paige Turner, scores her first landscaping contract to spruce up the park, her radio talk show shoots to number one, and her retail shop is simply blossoming. Yes, her life is a bed of roses. Until she finds City Manager, Bud Picklemann served up on the blade of her favorite shovel mere hours after she's threatened to have his head on a platter, then the thorns come out. And there is none thornier than the local police chief declaring Paige the one and only suspect and threatening to plow her under.

YOU'VE GOT TO FORMULATE A PLANT OF ATTACK . . .
       Read Between the Tines     

IF YOU PLANT THE WRONG SEEDS. . .
Recovered from her near death at the hand of a killer, landscape designer Paige Turner is certain her life will soon be a bed of roses. That is, until her employee, Daisy Rose Plant, finds a dead body, and the thorny police chief looks no further than Daisy for a suspect. Paige digs in and weeds through the list of potential killers, and before long, her sweet smelling rose of a life is soundly trampled.

YOU'LL HAVE TO REAP WHAT YOU SOW . . .
Paige would be much happier working over-thyme on her budding relationship with yummy attorney, Adam Hayes, but it soon becomes clear she'll be in a hoe lot of trouble with him if she continues digging for the killer. Does Paige risk all and try to unearth the killer? Or does she settle down in peas-ful bliss with the man of her dreams?
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       Seed You Later     

IF YOUR LIFE IS A BED OF ROSES. . .
When Paige Turner receives an invitation to her class reunion, seeds of doubt are planted in her relationship with yummy attorney, Adam Hayes. Doubts that stem from strange gifts arriving in the mail from one of Paige's old boyfriends. Why would this man be sending gifts to Paige? Is he simply trying to rekindle their relationship or are the gifts a sign of something underhanded?

YOU'LL HAVE TO SURVIVE THE THORNS. . .
Paige ignores the warning signs and Adam's advice, and attends the reunion. But when the old boyfriend turns up dead, and she is the only suspect in his murder, does Paige shrivel up like a spent bloom or does she dig until she unearths the real killer?
Paige teams up with dashing attorney, Adam Hayes to weed through the list of suspects, and clear her soiled reputation. A bigmouthed Parrot who often spouts Mr. T-isms, and a giant pickle mascot join in quirky Paige's quest to once again cultivate control of her life.
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