When Bretta Solomon agrees to run a design competition at the annual florists convention in Branson, Missouri, she has no idea she will soon be embroiled in another mystery. When the McDuffys slip a note under her door asking for help in finding out if their daughter's death was murder, and tragedy strikes one of Bretta's friends at the convention, Bretta decides to put her sleuthing abilities to work. Her investigation is complicated by an intriguing...

Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree. Torie O'Shea- genealogist and amateur sleuth- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy...

Genealogist Torie O'Shea of Missouri turns her attention to her family and discovers that her grandfather was murdered. Torie begins a probe and family skeletons tumble out.

Annabel Lee is delighted when a young boy is recruited to help with her father's bootlegging business, but when the boy's older sister sends law officer Corbin Appleby to find him, Annabel must choose between her rumrunning father and the handsome lawman.

Soldier Red Meyers looked forward to returning to Hideaway, Missouri, and his sweetheart, Bertie Moennig. But his dreams were shattered when he was gravely wounded during the last stages of World War II. Bertie was a beautiful woman, inside and out, and she deserved a whole man. For Bertie's sake, Red was determined to stay away. But a tragedy on the home front brings the couple face-to face for the first time in years, and now a dangerous mystery...

"On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy."--P. [4] of cover.