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"The Garden Gates series continues with a glimpse at how God's promises lead one woman through a season of loneliness. Both thought-provoking and fun, this second-chance romance features colorful characters, light-hearted humor, and moving spiritual themes"--Provided by publisher. A self-employed landscape gardener, Mibby Garrett is tending to more than flowerbeds. Since her husband's death almost two years ago, she has been raising her teenage sone...

Through joys and sorrows the friends have leaned on and supported one another. But what will happen to the circle when the friends discover that one of their own is leaving Hope Springs for Good?

Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime.

The sequel to Friendship Cake finds the new bonds of friendship and unity enjoyed by the ladies of Hope Springs Church challenged by Margaret's sudden illness, Nadine's grief over her lost daughter, Charlotte's crisis of faith, and Jessie's fierce desire to see the world outside the boundaries of her small town.

In RIver CIty Missouri, the wedding of the year is causing florist Bretta solomon one headach after another. Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, two wedding workers die suspiciously. And it's up to sleuth, Bretta, to figure out just exactly what's going pon before the big day.

A dog-walking professor friend of series sleuth and PBS-TV garden show host Louise Eldridge (The Garden Tour Affair) regales her with tales of his younger days in the Brazilian jungles. Just before his murder, however, he tells her of a good health-and-longevity plant he discovered there and has begun propagating for eventual commercial sale. Louise later works in his lab where various greedy suspects come trooping along so police actually ask for...

Ellie Quicke is back - Ellie and her new husband Thomas are called to deal with student Ursula, who has staged a sit-in at church. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, a disappearance and a death. As she investigates, Ellie suspects there is more to these events than anyone is admitting. Soon she finds her own friends and family targeted, as a powerful group hunts her down .

"Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn't just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula's friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that's just about to bloom and on display at the hotel. But when her...

"Sex sells ... even in the home garden market. And Louise Eldridge, with her ratings fading faster than the last rose of summer, finds her once-popular PBS gardening show becoming the latest victim of one Bunny Bainfield. With her plunging necklines and extreme short shorts, the bodacious Bunny makes pruning, mulching, and planting into an erotic adventure, and her highly successful ''Bunny in the Garden'' label is turning the once rarefied world...