Died and Prejudice

Fleeing the press and the public eye after a scandalous divorce, Eliza Crumb runs home to coastal North Carolina. But these aren't the healing waters she remembers. Someone's poisoned the well in Story Island. A blogger calling herself Poison Penelope is choking the town with a noxious brew of shameful fact and scurrilous fiction. When the subject of a particularly venomous post turns up dead, an apparent suicide, Eliza is convinced things aren't as they seem. Armed with old friends, a new beagle, and the Southern sass she thought she'd lost, she'll stop at nothing to find the one antidote that can save Story: the truth. If she can't, this might just be where her own story ends. About the Author Writer, reader, tireless champion of the Oxford comma. I can quote 80's movies with startling accuracy, and name all the Plantagenet monarchs in order. I'm for dogs and donuts. I have no feelings either way about scones. I am terrified of Mrs. Danvers. I write clean, lighthearted dog cozies under the name Cordelia Rook, and clean traditional fantasy under the name J.R. Rasmussen. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina, where my household is run by a galumphing fool of a bulldog. Visit me online at cordeliarook.com.