Rosemary Collins is shot while working on the night shift at a convenience store. Was it a bungled burglary? Or was it murder? What did Detective Sanchez pick up off the floor? What did Rosemary's diary reveal about the mysterious middle-aged married man? And, if it was murder, who did it? Elliot Miller the owner of the store? Max Anderson, the high school coach? Ben Foster, the high school principal? Bruce Nelson, the CPA? Johnny, the Fosters' gardener? Cary or Selma, the clerks who worked with Rosemary, but were mysteriously absent that night? A jealous wife? Ellen Kerry has helped the police in the small central Florida town of Cameron before. Can she do it again with the help of her reporter daughter, Zoe? When Ben Forster's wife Marie is found murdered, Ellen a master gardener, is more determined than ever to find the fiend who viciously vandalized her daisies.