Coming May 2007
Avon/Harper Collins
ISBN 0061129712

Roses are red, violets are blue,
People are dying, Nina might soon be, too . . .

For a while it seemed landscape designer Nina Quinn’s life was one big bed of roses. Her garden makeover business, Taken By Surprise, was blooming. Her pesky ex was finally out of the picture and a hunky new beau, Bobby MacKenna, was in it. But then the weeds started taking over when Bobby accepted a job in another state, nipping their blossoming relationship in the bud. However, he’s back in town to appear with Nina as undercover contestants on “Hitched or Ditched,” TV’s sleaziest reality romance show, since they'd promised Bobby's lawyer cousin they’d help him dig up some dirt on the show’s producer. Then an uncomfortable situation grows far worse when there’s a death behind the scenes...and the only reality is murder.

Nina would much rather be installing an indoor garden at a dysfunctional local nursing home than getting her hands dirty in this dangerous business. But if she doesn’t uproot a cold-blooded off-camera killer, she may be the one who's weeded out.