Sierra Ravenswood is the new part-time employee of the Flower House, a flower shop in Aerieville, Tennessee. It's true she didn't expect to be back in her hometown at twenty-eight-years-old, but after her dream of making it as a singer in Nashville crashed and burned, she's just grateful to have found a soft place to land.
Because, after all, Sierra firmly believes in being optimistic and positive about life, so she's sure she won't have to work at the Flower House forever. But things take a decidedly negative turn when a customer drops dead in the middle of her new bouquet-arranging workshop at the store. When it's discovered he was poisoned by a snack at the event, everyone at the workshop, including Sierra, is on the suspect list. To make matters worse, her boss has gone AWOL and left the store to her for the cost of one dollar, leaving Sierra in charge of both his store and his high-energy Corgi puppy, Gus.
The town is on edge, and Sierra knows that murder is something that an upbeat attitude and a bouquet of sweet-smelling roses can't fix. She's determined to figure out whodunit, before anyone else in town meets an untimely reason for needing funeral flowers.
A fun start to a series, Sierra Ravenswood had dreams of making it big in Nashville and things seemed to be going well until her heart, leg and dreams were all broken in the space of 5 minutes one evening! She has come back home to Aerieville, Tennessee and is working at the local flower shop (her family meanwhile are all fitness freaks and run a gym), everything is up in the air again when her boss suddenly ups and leaves, leaving her in charge! So far, so good, only she needs to run a workshop on flower arranging, keep the shop going, contend with a chap who has turned up to rent the apartment over the shop, look after her bosses young corgi (her brother and the aforementioned new tenant help with that!)… oh and cope with the fact that a man dropped dead during the workshop. No pressure then.
Plenty of red herrings to keep your interest with this, if the other books in the series are as good then this is a keeper!
Crafts and Life 
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