Deadly Nightshade — Mary Freeman

Rain Country Landscaping is her life, but as Rachel O'Connor sows seeds and creates new surroundings in the town of Blossom, she also unearths dire motives for murder...

Rachel has just scored a bid for a city landscape contract--just the kind of steady income her business needs. But her good fortune turns sour when a city councilman is found dead, and one of her new employees is a suspect. Rachel investigates and finds that the councilman was behind a scheme to annex some of her family's orchard land. Her uncle--known for his hot temper--has no alibi for the night of the murder. Soon the tension threatens to tear the town--and her family--apart. And if Rachel doesn't track down the killer, it'll be more than people's feelings and reputations that get hurt...