The Garden Club Deception
A Cozy Mystery

About this book:

Daisy Swanson has three weeks to save her beloved community greenhouse from becoming a parking lot—and the only person who can help is Julian Montgomery, the town's most eligible bachelor and grandson of the woman holding the purse strings. Their solution? A fake relationship that secures Daisy the grant money she needs and buys Julian the "personal stability" his formidable grandmother demands. But when the Cypress Garden Club's treasurer turns up dead in the municipal compost heap, their convenient arrangement becomes a very real alibi.

With a killer stalking the hydrangeas and Arthur Pendelton's secrets rotting beneath the surface, Daisy and Julian must navigate garden club galas, poisonous rivalries, and a growing attraction that feels dangerously unscripted. Between Daisy's encyclopedic plant knowledge and Julian's insider access to high-society motives, they make an unexpectedly formidable sleuthing team—if they can keep their cover story straight long enough to catch a murderer.

*The Garden Club Deception* cultivates a fresh, witty cozy mystery where the chemistry is organic, the suspects are prickly, and the truth is buried deep. Perfect for readers who like their small-town intrigue served with a side of slow-burn romance and a healthy dose of garden-variety murder.