1–What is the title of your latest release? POPPIES, PERILS, AND POISON 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Florist Gwen Stevens is torn between her lifelong crush on her best friend and the hot new local police detective. But her thorny love life takes a backseat when a newcomer to her small town drops dead in the local coffee shop…and Gwen’s surrogate aunt is the main suspect in her murder! Can Gwen uncover the truth before the killer poisons her chances of a happily ever after? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? When I started writing this series, I knew I wanted the books to be set in a small, rural town in the Midwest. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and modeled Star Junction after my experience of living in a small town. For some reason, I chose to set it in Illinois instead of Wisconsin, but I spent my college years in Illinois so that’s a special state to me too. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely! Gwen is fun, kind, and curious. The thing that I think would make her a…

1–What is the title of your latest release? MARIGOLDS, MISCHIEF, AND MURDER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Gwen Stevens will do just about anything to prove she’s ready to take the reins of the family business, Camelot Flowers. But when Gwen stumbles on the dead body of a high school friend, everything else in her life suddenly takes a backseat. Between a corpse, an attraction to two different inconvenient men, and slew of suspects, can Gwen find the killer…before they have her pushing up daisies? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I grew up in rural Wisconsin and knew I wanted to have this book take place in a rural midwestern town. Setting it in rural Illinois was a nod to the years I spent attending college in a suburb of Chicago. Small towns are rich with a sense of history and community, and I wanted to capture all of that in this book. The name Star Junction sounded magical to me, and that’s what I worked to create—a magical, but not perfect small town set in the heartland of America. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life?…