"Several hours passed before Kaylee had a chance to open the journal, flipping it open to the last page to read her grandfather's final written words. What she saw on the page sent chills up her spine: "Tomorrow I'm heading out to learn the truth. I must be careful, as I'm afraid I've already made the killer suspicious. If I don't come back, my darling Bea, know this: It was no accident. It was murder.'" For Kaylee Bleu, flowers have always been her life. A professor of botany with a PhD in plant taxonomy, Kaylee was endowed with a love of nature early in life by her maternal grandmother, Bea Lyons. But now Kaylee is caught in the middle of a tumultuous personal storm, one that has blown her back to her grandmother's door in the charming village of Turtle Cove, Washington. Kaylee's position at a prestigious Washington state university has been lost to budget cutbacks, and no new jobs are forthcoming unless she is willing to relocate from her beloved Pacific Northwest. Her grandmother has a solution: She is considering retirement and offers to sell The Flower Patch, her floral shop, and Wildflower Cottage, her home, to her granddaughter. Kaylee, though reluctant to make such a life-altering change at the age of 40, has to admit it is a match made in heaven. But when Kaylee and her canine companion, a dachshund named Bear, arrive on beautiful Orcas Island they are confronted almost immeadiately with evidence that her grandfather's mysterious disappearance five years ago wasn't just a boating accident. It was murder. Kaylee and Bear join forces with the Petal Pushers, Turtle Cove's garden club, investigating Ed Lyons's presumed death. She also meets Reese Holt, the ruggedly handsome master carpenter who serves as Turtle Cove's handyman. When Reese discovers Ed's journal and its last, ominous entry, Kaylee believes they are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer. Meanwhile, the annual Writers Coterie, an assembly of authors from across the nation, is meeting on Orcas Island. The daughter of a well-known romance writer is using the occasion for her wedding, and The Flower Patch is recruited to provide the venue and the blooms. But then the preparations are plagued by problems that cannot be laid at the feet of coincidence. Will Kaylee be able to unearth the solution to her grandfather's death? Will the wedding plans go off without a hitch? Join Kaylee and her newfound friends as they work to root out a very bad seed before someone else is pushing up daisies. -- Provided by dustjacket.