Jeanne Hager Burth Livres

Widowed and wary April DuBois thought she had everything she needed in Rusty her six-year-old son, and her chic Tulsa boutique. But from the moment Vic Leyland invaded her life, she was threatened by passions--and fears she'd never known before. Vic pursued her with single-minded intensity determined to discover the secrets she desperately tried to hide, determined to smash all the barriers to love. Their dangerous liaison ignited long-banked fires that threatened to take an even higher custody of Rusty the only male with an unquestioned claim on April's heart. She had only one last desperate to publicly proclaim her love for Vic, to marry him and let him join her in the fight to keep the child she adored.

A timely inheritance has enabled spunky, self-sufficient Tess Darcy to transform her late Aunt Iris's estate into a charming bed-and-breakfast inn. Aptly enough, among her first guests is a gaggle of gardening enthusiasts gathered together for the regional Iris Growers Convention--a thorny bunch more interested in digging up dirt than in weeding and watering. And when one of them turns up dead in Tess's magnificent garden--a cake knife planted firmly in her chest--it falls to the harried hostess to unearth the killer...before any more corpses spring up.