Bones and Roses

"Expect to be immersed" 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"Goudge writes like a house on fire." —Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Inheritance"[Goudge is] a gifted writer." —Chicago Tribune