Kaylee Bleu loves flowers and has been a part of her whole life. She heads back to the village of Turtle Cove, WA to her grandmothers house. Her grandmother wants to sell her flower shop and cottage to Kaylee.She visits Orcas Island and finds that the death of her grandfather 5 yrs. before was murder and no accident.

Wedding bells are set to ring in picture-perfect Turtle Cove, where Kaylee Bleu and the Petal Pushers are readying the grounds of Orcas Island's historic lighthouse for the event of the year. Prodigal daughter Brooke Edgars has returned to the island to marry local millionaire James Stratford, but the couple's trip to the altar is altered when Kaylee makes a horrifying discovery: the groom's dead body. Kaylee becomes even more engaged in the case when her trusty dachshund, Bear's, life is put in danger. She proposes to do local law enforcement a favor and help solve the crime—even if it means putting herself in harm's way to protect her loved ones. Thanks to her past life as a plant taxonomist, Kaylee determines that James has been poisoned with oleander, a native flower that's as beautiful as it is deadly. But that answer only leads to more questions: Did one of James' many enemies conspire to murder him? Could he have fallen victim to a fatal fiancée? And was he even the killer's true target? Unconvinced by the sheriff's assertion that James was the intended victim and that Brooke was more black widow than blushing bride, Kaylee and her garden club friends vow to untie the knots surrounding this whodunit. As they dig up more dirt, they discover that not everything is what it seems. Childhood grievances, bad business deals, hidden pasts—the motives keep piling up while the murderer remains on the loose. Can Kaylee lift the veil on the mystery before the killer says "I do" to another murder?

It's Christmas time on Orcas Island, WA. Kaylee is filled with holiday cheer, but soon realizes not everyone is filled with that same cheer. Her fellow designers have big personalities with egos to match. The festive occasion takes a darker turn when one of the designers is murdered. The designer is Kris Carroll. Soon Kaylee is uncovering family secrets,bitter rivalries and startling revelations.

Kaylee Bleu has traded in her previous life in academia for the fresh air and peace of Turtle Cove, Washington. Her florist shop, The Flower Patch, has grown on her, as have the new friends she's made in the Petal Pushers Garden Club. But when a colleague from the university where she once worked bugs her to join a camping trip at a nearby state park, Kaylee decides that sleeping under the stars for a few nights might be fun. Unfortunately, those plans may come back to bite her. It turns out someone else has been roughing it upstairs in the Victorian mansion that houses "The Flower Patch!" Kaylee's ire is further sparked when she realizes that her dreams for her secret horticultural project, which she's been sticking to for a decade, have been doused. Her special plants are now squelched, and Kaylee's determined to dig in and smoke out the squatter. But there's more trouble when Kaylee's uninvited guest ends up dead. The troop of professors who've trekked in from the mainland for the campout realize she's one of their own, and that more than one of them was toting a grudge against her. Even Kaylee herself isn't out of the woods. The deceased dragged Kaylee's name through the mud and got her chopped from her teaching position. Kaylee knows she didn't kill anyone, but what about those mysterious men who've staked out another site and seem to be watching her every move? Kaylee will need all her skills, not to mention the assistance of her loyal friends the Petal Pushers and her intrepid canine scout Bear, to shine a light on this murderer before someone else is pitched headlong into the darkness.

Nothing is coming up roses for Kaylee Bleu. Not only are all of the plants in her flower shop going thirsty because of a busted well pump, but a competing florist on Orcas Island is stealing customers from The Flower Patch. As if that wasn't enough to turn her into Florist Grump, a new client who could be Kaylee's inroad to the lucrative country club set is also her most persnickety yet, and continuously threatens to take her business elsewhere. But all of that seems like no big deal when Kaylee's plumber discovers a fractured skull in her shop's yard. The remains belong to Danny Lane, a troubled teenager accused of killing a high-school girl in a boating accident thirty-five years ago. The consensus around Turtle Cove was that the boy fled town shortly after the accident, but Kaylee thinks the holes in that story are as big as the grave-size pit dug up around her well pump. Unfortunately, somebody on Orcas Island wants Kaylee to leave the past buried. At first, she refuses to be intimidated by menacing messages and frightful pranks. But when suspicious accidents begin to befall witnesses close to the cold case, Kaylee's seeds of doubt blossom into dread. She must decide how deep she's willing to dig to determine if Danny's death was an accident . . . or murder. As her investigation continues, Kaylee seems to be reaping more questions than answers. Who is really to blame for Joelle Spiece's death all those years ago, and who killed Danny Lane? Who is terrorizing her with threats and pranks? Is it the charming congressman, the muscle-bound landscaper, the grieving father, or the grudge-holding curmudgeon? If Kaylee isn't careful, unearthing the answers could be digging her own grave.

It's October on Orcas Island, and the residents of Turtle Cove, Washington, revel in the cool weather and beautiful autumn colors as they gear up for the community's fall festivities. Kaylee Bleu, owner of The Flower Patch, is already busy as a bee, so when her only employee takes some time off, she enlists the help of her friend Amanda Denman. Kaylee recently encouraged Amanda and her daughter to move to the island, and she even helped Amanda land a job at the jewelry store in town. Mother and daughter seem to be enjoying their new home . . . until Amanda is arrested. Several necklaces and rings were stolen from the jewelry store, and the police discover one of the necklaces hidden in Amanda's house. It appears to be an open-and-shut case, but Amanda insists the jewelry was planted. Kaylee and her friends in the Petal Pushers garden club set out to clear Amanda's name, but the task is no bed of roses. As they dig deeper, they face threats, and Kaylee must cope with a childhood trauma she thought had been buried long ago. The list of suspects continues to grow, and it'll take all their sleuthing skills to root out the thief. Will Kaylee and her friends hit pay dirt before Amanda is robbed of her freedom?

Excitement about Thanksgiving is taking root in Turtle Cove, Washington, where Kaylee Bleu has much to be thankful for: thoughtful friends on Orcas Island, a successful flower shop, and the companionship of her cutie-pie dachshund, Bear. Plus, Kaylee's part-time florist, Mary Bishop, just planted the seeds of a revenue-revving venture at The Flower Patch, and customers are gobbling up her gourd-eous decorative pumpkins. While restocking their supply of pumpkins at Madrona Grove Farm and Orchard, Kaylee runs into librarian Kathy Fitz, and Kathy's untrustworthy ex-husband, true crime writer Boyd Parsons. For better or worse, Kathy appears to be falling once again for Boyd, who has returned to Orcas Island to harvest information about loot that went missing from a 1930s bank robbery. Kaylee soon finds herself swept up in the mystery as well, helping the former couple track down the lost plunder. However, it quickly becomes clear that they aren't the island's only treasure-hunting inhabitants. Suspicious events begin to plague Kaylee and the people around her, and things go from troubling to nearly tragic when Boyd winds up in the hospital. The situation worsens exponentially when Kathy is arrested for assaulting her ex, and Kaylee is partly to blame. Kaylee knows Kathy is innocent, and she refuses to let her wither on the vine. She and handsome handyman Reese Holt join forces with Boyd to figure out who attacked him and where the money was squirreled away decades ago. Who is to blame for the increasingly dangerous hijinks afoot on the island? Is it another one of Boyd's jilted exes? Someone he wronged with one of his tell-all books? An unknown assailant trying to spoil their search? If Kaylee doesn't leave things alone, she might be the next person on Orcas Island to have her hopes squashed, permanently.

Florist Kaylee Bleu is celebrating Christmas in Turtle Cove, her home on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest. She and her trusted employee and friend, Mary Bishop, are adorning The Flower Patch with poinsettias and pine boughs in anticipation of a merry holiday season. It isn't long, though, before Kaylee's roped into joining the town's Festivities Committee. Packing one more task into her tremendous to-do list isn't exactly the direction she wants to go, but Kaylee can hardly refuse. Besides, as a member of the committee, she can try to revive Turtle Cove's tree-lighting ceremony, which was discontinued years ago for mysterious reasons. When a young woman arrives at Kaylee's door, begging for help, Kaylee isn't sure she has the stamina to take on yet another challenge. But the weeping widow's words of woe tug at Kaylee's resolve. It seems Jake Beckett died of a heart attack, leaving behind a cryptic message before he met his maker. Kaylee quickly recognizes the jumbled numbers on the crumpled scrap of paper: they're GPS coordinates. Will they blaze a tantalizing trail leading to treasure? Or will Jake's final message turn out to be something better left buried? Kaylee's pulled down another path when a former resident, now a tourism consultant, arrives on the island. She wants to use The Flower Patch as the starting point for her promotional campaign. The extra publicity will be welcome, but Kaylee can't help but wonder if the marketing maven has a hidden reason for returning to Turtle Cove. She seems overly interested in the dead man's cache of clues. Signs point to her having a connection to Jake before his death. and to the tragic death of another young man years before. When it's revealed that Jake was actually murdered, Kaylee finds herself hot on the trail of a killer. More than one person with hidden motives might have been seeking Jake's demise. But can Kaylee complete her trek to the truth in time to prevent another victim from being bushwhacked?

Spring is beginning to bloom on beautiful Orcas Island in Washington, and the green-thumbed gardeners of Turtle Cove flock to The Flower Patch. Shop owner Kaylee Bleu is overwhelmed with the surge in business, but she delights in every minute she spends assisting her customers. That is until Vivienne Gherson enters the shop seeking Kaylee's professional expertise as a forensic botanist. She asks Kaylee to analyze an herbal supplement her brother-in-law purchased from Tyrone Greene, aka Dr. T. She believes Dr. T. is leading him down the wrong path, and she wants Kaylee to prove the supplement is a fake. Kaylee hesitates to get involved, but while she mulls over the request, the unspeakable happens. Vivienne is murdered. When Kaylee analyzes the herbal supplement, she discovers garden variety tea and a rare herb cultivated by Dr. T. Is it really the miracle supplement he advertises? Or is Dr. T. a snake oil salesman, scamming people out of their money? Did Vivienne's concerns about his product have anything to do with her murder? As Kaylee and her friends in the Petal Pushers garden club investigate, they conclude this is no tempest in a teapot. More irate customers of Dr. T.'s grassroots organization come forward, and the list of murder suspects continues to grow. When it seems as if the stakes couldn't get any higher, someone targets Kaylee. Will Kaylee and her friends remedy this mystery before someone else is prescribed a permanent cure-all?

If there's one thing flower shop owner Kaylee Bleu knows for dead certain, it's that where her flirtatious friend Nick Durham goes, romantic intrigue will follow. However, the notorious sheriff's deputy indicates he might be ready to settle down when he introduces his fellow Orcas Island residents to his lovely new girlfriend, Felicia Lewis; a woman who happens to look a lot like Kaylee. Unfortunately, Nick's budding romance goes from his-and-hers to his-and-hearse when Kaylee discovers Felicia's body inside a casket at the local funeral home. As if his girlfriend's murder weren't bad enough, Nick is dismissed from the case by the sheriff along with a warning that he's a potential suspect. Dying to find out who killed Felicia, Nick asks Kaylee for her help in an off-books investigation. Certain her friend is innocent of the crime, Kaylee agrees; but is she knocking on death's door by doing Nick a favor? As Kaylee digs deeper into the grave mystery, events that had seemed merely odd before Felicia's murder take on a deadly serious cast: the suspicious sedan that ran Kaylee off the road, a public display of aggression from the victim's ex, Felicia's strangely fearful reaction to a crowded ferry. Was Felicia trying to bury something from her past? If so, what was she dead-set on hiding? The situation takes an even darker turn when the participants of a summer teen program get pulled into the chaos surrounding the murder. Determined to protect the innocent visitors, Kaylee redoubles her efforts to unearth Felicia's killer; but will her investigation be the final nail in her coffin? If Kaylee isn't careful, the next funeral in Turtle Cove could be her own.

Kaylee Bleu anticipates a quiet Monday morning at her shop, The Flower Patch, in Turtle Cove, Washington. But it's the death knell for her relaxing plans when local coroner Giles Akin bursts through the door in a panic. He's hosting a dinner to kick off a convention for his fellow funeral directors, and he forgot the flowers. Now Kaylee has only a few hours to put together the floral arrangements. Kaylee finishes the project in the nick of time, and she breathes a sigh of relief. But her relief soon turns to shock when she drops off the flowers and discovers a dead body. Mitchum Landsdowne's death is ruled a homicide, and Kaylee and her friends in the Petal Pushers garden club undertake their own investigation. They learn that not all the bereaved hope Mitchum rests in peace. He was an ambitious funeral director, but his obituary fails to mention that his ruthless actions infuriated some of his colleagues and even his own son. Did one of them plot the ultimate revenge? Kaylee and her friends must narrow down the long list of suspects. Will they locate the murderer before someone else is six feet under?

With beautiful summer weather providing the perfect backdrop for Orcas Island's upcoming Independence Day events, florist Kaylee Bleu can happily report that she's already seen an uptick in tourist traffic at her shop, The Flower Patch. Visitors are being drawn to Turtle Cove by a retrospective art exhibit at an upscale gallery and a writing workshop being hosted by mystery bookstore Between the Lines, and Kaylee and other local merchants are excited about the boost to their bottom lines. Unfortunately, the pretty picture is threatened by the arrival of Emmet Baron, a mainland publisher of ill repute who is canvassing the town to drum up support for his latest scheme. Fellow business owners paint Kaylee an unflattering portrait of Baron, whose reputation for underhanded dealings and nefarious plots precedes him. No one seems to have any love lost for the cad, but that doesn't make it any less horrifying when he is found dead and the police suspect foul play. Details remain sketchy about how Emmet met his maker. When Sheriff Eddie Maddox enlists Kaylee's help investigating an abstract claim buried amid the publisher's personal effects, she soon realizes that the real question is: Who didn't have a reason to erase Baron from Turtle Cove? From the young author he was exploiting to the grieving family of a painter whose masterpiece he tried to misappropriate, Emmet Baron's legacy as a con artist lives on despite his untimely end. The farther Kaylee is pulled into the mystery surrounding Emmet's demise - and, for that matter, his life - the closer she comes to painting herself into a precarious corner. Can she draw the correct conclusions about Baron's final moments before she experiences her own brush with death? Or will a cold-arted murderer deliver her a fatal final stroke?

Summer is winding down and florist Kaylee Bleu and the other residents of Orcas Island, Washington, are planting fall flowers and preparing for another bustling autumn tourist season. But Kaylee has a full course load. Turtle Cove High School's most beloved teacher has retired and is about to move off the island, and mild-mannered school librarian Wilma has begged Kaylee and the other members of the Petal Pushers garden club to help her assemble a last-minute class reunion so that everyone can say goodbye before he leaves town. Unfortunately, there's nothing gym-dandy about the social when someone is killed on the beach. It's not a former-student body that Kaylee nearly stumbles over while walking Bear. It's the photography buff brought along as a date by one of the alumni, and other than Arnold, the poor sap, no one knows her. So who else would have a motive to kill her? Unless Wilma, who's harbored a secret crush on the dentist for more than a decade, got jealous enough to pick a peck of poison and ring the final bell on her rival . . . It soon becomes clear that the dead woman was not who she seemed and that her interest in Arnold was absent any real affection. Now a whole lot of cliques seem to be interested in the photos she'd been clicking. Not only that, someone's been using innovative technology and hacking into the recesses of people's computers and phones. One of these former friends is on the dishonor roll, but who's throwing whom under the bus? Kaylee will have to do some old-school detective work if she's to mow down a murderer; before someone else becomes dead of the class.

Autumn has arrived in Turtle Cove, Washington, and Orcas Island's Apple Fest Fly-In is ready for liftoff at the local airport. Florist Kaylee Bleu is excited to host a vendor booth at the event, not only to fuel sales for The Flower Patch but also to stay close to the action as pilots showcase their flying skills. She's also enjoying the chance to get to know her friend DeeDee Wilcox's godfather, Wilfred Bates, an aviator and organic fruit farmer with an orchard adjacent to the airfield. Kaylee's enthusiasm takes a nosedive, however, when she overhears an argument between Wilfred and David Smythe, a real estate developer trying to get a fly-in community off the ground; and swindle Wilfred out of his land in the process. However, just when Kaylee thinks tension at the airport can't get any higher, she unwittingly discovers David's dead body . . . and her heart does a loop the loop when she realizes he was murdered. The situation becomes especially tricky to navigate when evidence found at Bates Fruit Farm leads to Wilfred's arrest for homicide. Kaylee and DeeDee know that Wilfred is innocent . . . but who is guilty? More than one of David's fellow pilots may have a motive to kill, and Kaylee begins to feel like she's flying blind as she struggles to untangle several years' worth of aeronautical intrigue surrounding the Turtle Cove Airport. On a wing and a prayer, Kaylee works to exonerate Wilfred before the court of public opinion can convict him of David's murder. But will the truth take flight before it's too late? If Kaylee isn't careful, she could be the next Orcas Island resident to crash and burn.

Turtle Cove, Washington, florist Kaylee Bleu is anticipating a low-drama autumn, but her expectations are quickly upstaged by the arrival of an attractive young couple opening a new theater on Orcas Island. Kaylee has never been one for the limelight, but her leading man, adorable dachshund Bear, is offered the opportunity to participate in the playhouse's first production as an understudy for its canine stars, Gilbert and Sullivan. Although Kaylee would prefer to remain behind the scenes, she agrees to let her little dog join the fun at the theater along with some of her friends and several other Turtle Cove townsfolk. But Kaylee's potential stage fright turns to actual fear when a member of the troupe is injured and Sullivan vanishes. Was the actress attacked, or did she merely suffer from bad timing? And did the canine thespian simply run away; or is there something more nefarious at play? Despite the unease surrounding the mysterious events, the theater owners decide that the show must go on. As rehearsals continue, Kaylee has a front-row seat to the drama unfolding both on stage and off. Resolved to pull back the curtain on the increasingly strange happenings at the Ropeworks Playhouse, she questions all of the actors about their respective roles; only to find that many of their answers cast doubt on the entire production. When merely suspicious incidents give way to downright threatening attacks - and worse - Kaylee's determination to thrust the bad guy into the spotlight gets top billing. Can Kaylee uncover the truth before the madman waiting in the wings directs her toward a fatal final act? If she doesn't unmask the villain in time, breaking a leg will be the least of her worries.

With tourist traffic near zero, February is usually the quietest time of year in Turtle Cove, Washington, and Orcas Island florist Kaylee Bleu finds that off-season boredom isn't her cup of tea. On one of many visits to the bakery next door, however, she encounters two people who are anything but quiet: surly whale watch boat captain Roz Corzo and her boisterous friend Jeanette Colson. Despite warnings about high winds and choppy waves, Jeanette convinces Roz to take them out on her boat that night, proclaiming that the special herbal tea she's made will fortify them in the brutal weather. When Roz wakes up on deck the next morning and discovers Jeanette has vanished, she lands in hot water as the main suspect in her friend's disappearance—if not in the sheriff's eyes, then at least in the court of public opinion. Everyone seems to think she and Jeanette were imbibing out on the boat, but Roz spouts off to anyone who'll listen that all they were drinking was the "disgusting" tea Jeanette made for them. At the sheriff's request, Kaylee examines the dregs of the tea and discovers valerian root, an herbal sedative present in a dangerously concentrated dose. Despite Roz's cantankerous disposition, Kaylee doesn't believe she tried to drug Jeanette ... which means that Jeanette was the one most likely to slip the herb into their tea. But why? The deeper Kaylee digs into Jeanette's disappearance, the more she discovers how steeped in contradictions the missing woman was. Did she meet with an accident? Was she targeted by an enemy? Or was she brewing nefarious plans that Kaylee can't even begin to imagine? The harder Kaylee strains to string together a plausible theory about the case, the closer she comes to a truth that just might be too hard for her to swallow. Can she distill the facts about Jeanette before her cup of trouble runneth over—with fatal consequences?

Florist Kaylee Bleu and her friends in the Petal Pushers garden club are branching out from their usual activities to host a spring break camp for schoolchildren on Washington's Orcas Island. They've got an entire week of fun events planned—but the camp won't get off the ground if they can't get permission for their first field trip, a visit to the oldest tree on the island. Kaylee eventually tracks down the estate's new owner, U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Newton, but the admiral isn't all she finds in that neck of the woods—an old friend of hers, NSA agent Phil Haynes, has been called in to handle the fallout from a prowler at the Newtons' mansion the previous evening. Although the trespasser's identity is at the root of Phil's concerns, Kaylee is more worried about why the Newtons' neighbor, Tabitha, has vanished without a trace. Despite warnings from Phil to bow out of the investigation, Kaylee won't rest until she determines what happened to Tabitha. Did the woman leave town of her own accord, or was she forced? And was her departure innocent, or was it connected to rotting limbs in her family tree? As if the situation wasn't already confusing enough, Kaylee also finds herself entwined by matters of the heart. She admits that she had a crush on Phil twenty years ago ... but will his reappearance in her life reignite those feelings or prompt her to go out on a more uncertain limb with handsome handyman Reese Holt? Without clear answers to any of her questions, Kaylee gets the sense that she's barking up the wrong tree. She's intent on finding Tabitha once and for all, but if she sticks to her pursuit of the truth, a villain hidden in plain sight might just chop her down to size—permanently.

Cameras are rolling on Orcas Island as a TV crew arrives to shoot 'Restaurant Restarts,' a makeover show turning the rundown Madrona Grove Farm and Orchard into an upscale farm-to-table restaurant. Many folks from Turtle Cove are contributing to the renovation, including florist Kaylee Bleu and her boyfriend, Reese Holt, who's serving up impressive transformations as the job's general contractor. The activity at the farm is leaving a bad taste in at least one local's mouth, however. Native American herbalist Georgine Snowbird, who lives next door to Madrona Grove, has some serious reservations—in fact, the Lummi herbalist insists the land is cursed. The showrunners ridicule Georgine's warnings at first, but they're forced to eat crow when the show's host, Gabe Forester, is discovered dead of mysterious causes. Did the curse factor into his death? Was his demise just rotten luck? Or was murder the main ingredient? Unfortunately, Gabe's death is merely an appetizer for other frightful events to come, and Kaylee finds it hard to sugarcoat the situation when even Reese falls victim. The dangerous incidents could be the producer's half-baked schemes to boost ratings—but they could just as easily be the work of an unseen villain with a more nefarious reason to whip up chaos. Tensions at Madrona Grove soon reach a boiling point, and Kaylee struggles to make sense of the peculiar goings-on. Try as she might, though, she can't get anyone on set to spill the beans about the mysterious mayhem afoot on the farm. Can Kaylee figure out who's behind the foul pranks and could-be murder at Madrona Grove before her goose is cooked, or has she bitten off more than she can chew?

Puffy clouds in a bright, blue sky have cultivated a summertime vibe in Turtle Cove, Washington, but the dispositions of some Orcas Island residents are anything but sunny. Not only is florist and forensic botanist Kaylee Bleu having a hard time sowing seeds of inspiration for a science journal article she’s writing, but she keeps getting interrupted by the sound of men arguing outside her shop, The Flower Patch. With his dementia worsening, confused widower Fred Dorman has begun obsessively over-weeding gardens all around town. The mess he’s made in some new planters on Main Street is a thorn in the side of many business owners—especially High Tide Outfitters owner Vince Mack, who angrily insists that the ruined display in front of his store is scaring away customers. Although Kaylee and her boyfriend, Reese Holt, quickly nip the latest altercation in the bud, tension in Turtle Cove remains high even after Fred is escorted home. The situation goes from tense to tragic when Kaylee and Reese return to Fred’s house to check on him and find the poor man frightfully ill. At first, it appears that Fred’s near-death experience was an accident . . . but if so, then how does that explain the suspicious bruising Kaylee notices on his face? Realizing how concerned Reese is about his elderly friend, Kaylee determines to root out what really happened to Fred. Relying on trowel and error to further her investigation, Kaylee quickly unearths a bone-chilling discovery that could be the key to Fred’s mishap. Unfortunately, she can’t help but second-guess her own detective skills as the complicated case becomes increasingly perplexing. Despite her hesitation, however, there’s no time to beat around the bush—will she prune back the lies before it’s too late, or will Kaylee dig herself a hole she can’t get out of?

Preparations for this summer's Orcas Island Lavender Festival are keeping Turtle Cove, Washington florist Kaylee Bleu busy as a bee at The Flower Patch. However, she wouldn't dream of denying a special request from her dear friend and assistant, Mary Bishop: hosting the wedding of Mary's niece, Layla, and local real estate agent Douglas Miller in the picturesque lavender fields surrounding Kaylee's home, Wildflower Cottage. Wedding and festival plans buzz along splendidly, especially thanks to a visit from Kaylee's grandmother, Bea Lyons, who lessens Kaylee's load at the flower shop while Mary concentrates on Layla's nuptials. Unfortunately, the season's sweetness turns sour when angry bees attack the happy couple's engagement party and the groom suffers a life-threatening allergic reaction. Although being stung could have been an accident, a second, more obvious, attempt on Douglas' life proves that someone is trying to stir up a hornet's nest—with deadly intentions. Encouraged by her friends in the Orcas Island Sheriff's Department, Kaylee begins combing the island for clues to Douglas' foe. But in the midst of the attempted murder investigation, Kaylee finds herself swarmed by fears that her relationship with handsome handyman Reese Holt isn't what it seems. Although Reese insists that she's his queen bee, she can't help but worry that he's keeping secrets from her—and that the truth could send her entire world into a tailspin. Despite the bee in her bonnet about Reese's devotion, Kaylee forges ahead with her investigation, determined that Layla and Douglas should live happily ever after even if she might not. Soon, though, it becomes clear that if she doesn't stop nosing around about Douglas' would-be murderer, she'll be the next Orcas Island resident to get stung ... with fatal consequences.