While harvesting yucca plants to make paper, China Bayles finds a body-cause of death: unknown. It seems that the simple lives of many residents of Pecan Springs hide complex and dangerous pasts. And now, while also unraveling secrets that hit close to home, China must set the record straight- and find a killer.

"China Bayles is shocked to learn that her friend Jo committed suicide, and she believes there is more to the case than anyone knows, but when she decides to investigate, she learns that someone is hiding a deadly secret."--

While conducting a discreet investigation into allegations of improper behavior on the part of high school football coach Tim Duffy, China Bayles uncovers a mystery surrounding a young woman's death.

"China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany...