Dying for the Christmas Rose

Tate Adkins, celebrity horticulturist and plant hunter, on his way to developing the Christmas rose that would rock the gardening world, fell to his death on a plant hunting expedition. Two years later, still grieving, his lover, garden designer and writer Mim Fitz, is struggling at work under a toxic editor. At home, her sleep is haunted by a terrifying dream. In an effort to regain her life, she attends a horticultural writers' conference. There, in addition to information about the beautiful Christmas rose, she discovers a web of coincidences that unveil a murderous psychopath.

Prize-winning garden writer Carole Ottesen is best known for books and articles that chronicle the cutting edge of gardening in America. After twenty-five years, nine books--including Ornamental Grasses the Amber Wave, and The Native Plant Primer-- and countless articles--in Martha Stewart Living, Garden Design, American Gardener, and many other periodicals--she has turned to crime. Dying for the Christmas Rose is her first garden mystery.