Title: Bones and roses
Description: After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her.  But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor,she finds it filled with bones and roses.  Suddenly Tish is plunged into a murder case that dates back to her childhood.  Pitted against her high school crush, homicide detective Spence Breedlover, she finds herself in jeopardy -- in more ways than one.  Can Tish unmask a killer before the man who broker her heart puts her behind bars, or, worse, she becomes a corpse herself?
Subjects: Recovering alcoholics, Anthropometry, Fiction, Police, Women, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Cypress (Calif.)