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About Paradise Lost: A Flower Girls Mystery

A remote island paradise off the North Carolina coast in the off season. The sudden washing ashore of bodies. The medical examiner’s ghastly discovery. Shocking warnings and life-threatening “accidents.” A life-or-death struggle. Lives changed forever. In this sequel to Drop Dead Handsome, Tootsie, Bippy, Penelope, and Rosemary, who met and dubbed themselves the Flower Girls when they simultaneously placed a yellow rose on their friend Maggie’s coffin, reunite for a trip to a little-known island. Their vow at the time of Maggie’s death to get together at least once a year to continue their new friendship leads them to the off-the-beaten-path island and to a danger so forbidding that they are forced to confront the possibility that they may be in too deep this time to survive. When the idyllic scenery of White Sand Island is horrifically marred by bizarre murders, the Flower Girls, with their characteristic good humor, intelligence, and steely determination, take up the mystery. In doing so—not knowing whom they can trust—they put their own lives in danger to an extent they have never before experienced. Even the four men who worked with them to solve their friend’s murder in Mississippi and who join them on the island: Maggie’s two brothers, the police lieutenant, and the man who found Maggie’s body are unable to protect the Flower Girls from the danger that hounds and threatens them. Who is behind their terror? Who is so desperate to have them silenced? Will this be the end of one or all of them, these four who have pledged, “Tous pour un, un pour tous”?

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