TWENTY-EIGHT AND A HALF WISHES (A ROSE GARDNER MYSTERY, BOOK 1)
DeniseGroverSwank
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The first book of the USA Today Bestselling series!
"Though much of the book is light-hearted and occasionally outright hilarious, the author sneaks in a few home truths along the way that will hit you where it counts, like how even someone鈥檚 best intentions can box you in." --Everybody Needs a Little Romance
"This was one of those books that I kept telling myself one more page, then I need to put it down. Instead I found myself tearing through the book instead, needing to know the outcome." --Just Jump Book Reviews
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For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She鈥檚 had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone鈥檚 toilet鈥檚 overflowed, but she鈥檚 never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.
Rose realizes she鈥檚 wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She鈥檚 well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won鈥檛 help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe鈥檚 new to town, but it doesn鈥檛 take a vision for Rose to realize he鈥檚 got plenty secrets of his own.
Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they鈥檒l do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn鈥檛 her biggest worry after all.
Winner of The Beacon 鈥 2010 Unpublished Division, Mainstream Category
"Thirty-Two and a Half Complications" releases on June 24, 2014.