Absent Without Leaf

About Absent Without Leaf

Kaylee Bleu investigates the disappearance of a local woman who vanished at the same time her naval admiral neighbor’s home was burglarized. Florist Kaylee Bleu and her friends 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, and discovers that an old friend of hers, NSA agent Phil Haynes, has been called in to handle the fallout from a prowler at the Newtons' mansion.

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. 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?