Grant Evans returned to Rosewood Harbor to fix broken things, not investigate them. But when Leo Hartman, the town's beloved florist and the closest thing Grant had to family, is found dead inside his flower shop, Grant knows the official explanation does not fit.The police call it natural causes. Grant sees the missing ledger, the angry phone call from the night before, and the single yellow carnation left like a message in Leo's hand.Philip Mak prefers archives to chaos. As Rosewood Harbor's careful, closed-off librarian, he has built a quiet life around order, research, and locked doors. Then Grant comes to him with a mystery no one else wants to solve, and Philip finds himself pulled into a trail of town records, old grudges, coded flowers, and a 1955 journal that suggests the so-called Cupid's Curse may be more blueprint than ghost story.As Valentine's Day approaches and the town prepares for its annual gala, Grant and Philip uncover a pattern of secrets that someone is desperate to keep buried. The closer they come to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore the danger around them - or the slow-burn attraction growing between them.In Rosewood Harbor, curses do not kill. People do.
