Rooted in Malice

About Rooted in Malice

Plant taxonomist and flower shop owner Kaylee Bleu is drawn into the investigation of a woman’s mysterious disappearance from a whale watching boat in the dead of winter. Former botany professor Kaylee Bleu doesn’t have much love lost for Turtle Cove, Washington’s, surliest whale watch charter captain, Roz Corzo, but she steps in to help when Roz and her friend Jeanette take her boat out on a blustery winter night and only one of them returns. At the sheriff's request, Kaylee examines the dregs of the tea the women were drinking and discovers valerian root, an herbal sedative present in a dangerously concentrated dose.

Despite Roz's cantankerous disposition, Kaylee doesn't believe she tried to drug Jeanette ... which means that Jeanette was the one most likely to slip the herb into their tea. But why?

The harder Kaylee strains to string together a plausible theory about the case, the closer she comes to a truth that just might be too hard for her to swallow. Can she distill the facts about Jeanette before her cup of trouble runneth over -- with fatal consequences?