The Last Roses: 2 (D. B. Burns Mysteries)

On a trip home from North Carolina Delilah Burns Morgan......is stopped in her tracks by a deer she whacks into oblivion. Lyle Henderson the man she loves but put off marrying comes to her rescue. Life would be a bed of roses if during a week of recovery at the Henderson family estate a lascivious conversation hadnt been overheard the mystery of a dead girl is revealed and someone using Lyles cabin in the woods as a rendezvous hadnt altered their plans.Then Delilahs beloved god-daughter and best friends only child is kidnapped. With Josephine in tow Delilah sets out to bring Savannah back home.Roping in friends for help Delilahs neighborhood burgeons with former clandestine government officers setting up an op center and Lyle and her minister disappearing to follow leads.An attempt to fricassee Delilah and a pompous businessman make Delilah and Lyle determined to unearth the villains and find Savannah before its too late.