River City, Missouri, florist Bretta Solomon was looking forward to her day off from her busy flower shop. She wants to attend the picnic and open house hosted by her friends Dan and Natalie Parker, the owners of Parker Greenhouse, a varied operation that also specializes in breeding orchids. That is, until a death is the main event at the picnic, and a violent death at that.

"In this perennially blooming series, Harrison's hardy heroine stalks the killer with the skills of a seasoned sleuth." —Booklist

A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow, with a strange combination of letters and numbers tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague, Florin Wenninger, embark on a bloody trail.

On the run for the last year, Tala Walker must flee again when she witnesses a murder. She stows away with a sexy, gruff ice road trucker headed to the wilds of Alaska. Despite his own painful past, Cameron Hughes offers his protection. But as they navigate the ice and flee the killers, their passion threatens to burn brighter than the northern lights…

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure.