Bones and Roses

"e;Expect to be immersed"e; in this mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Swimsuit Body, featuring an amateur sleuth who attracts a kinky killer (Sandra Brown, New York Times-bestselling author). After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her. But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor, she finds it filled with bones and roses. Suddenly Tish is plunged into a murder case that dates back to her childhood. Pitted against her high school crush, homicide detective Spence Breedlove, she finds herself in jeopardy in more ways than one. Can Tish unmask a killer before the man who broke her heart puts her behind bars or, worse, she becomes a corpse herself?Bones and Roses is the 1st book in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Praise for Eileen Goudge"e;Goudge writes like a house on fire."e; Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance"e;[Goudge is] a gifted writer."e; Chicago Tribune