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Where the Roses Bleed
Paperback
Publisher: Erica Bunker
Published: Jul 6 2025
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Lena Carter arrives in Athens, Georgia, determined to rebuild her life with grace. Recently divorced and eager for a fresh start, she moves to the picturesque Five Points neighborhood to be near her daughter, Summer, a bright UGA sophomore. But this charming Southern town, with its razor-neat lawns and polite smiles, proves less a haven and more a gilded cage.
Lena's effortless elegance and independent spirit immediately draw the ire of Caroline Whitaker, the undisputed Queen Bee of Athens society. Caroline-with her flawless facade and honeyed venom-sees Lena as a disruptive force, especially when Summer chooses to pledge Alpha Kappa Alpha over Caroline's cherished legacy sorority, Chi Omega. The subtle slights soon escalate into thinly veiled threats, and Lena becomes an unwelcome outsider in a world that never forgives trespassers.
Tensions boil over at Caroline's annual Summer Soiree. After a public, heated exchange with Lena, Caroline is found brutally murdered in her own meticulously manicured garden, the heavy stone gnome Lena once innocently admired now transformed into a chilling murder weapon.
Suddenly, Lena isn't just the outsider-she's the prime suspect. As Detective Caleb Ortiz, a man with his own complicated history with Athens's elite, begins to close in, Lena realizes she must fight back. With Summer's help, she digs into the town's hidden depths, uncovering a shocking web of secrets: Caroline's ruthless blackmail, her husband Thomas's devastating addictions and criminal fraud, her daughter Madison's unraveling desperation, and the quiet complicity of the women trapped in Caroline's orbit.
In a place where reputation matters more than truth, Lena must expose the rot beneath the roses to clear her name and protect her daughter. But as the truth bleeds out, she discovers some secrets are buried deep-and in Athens, battles are fought with whispers, cold shoulders, and sometimes, much worse.
Where the Roses Bleed is a gripping domestic thriller that peels back the layers of Southern charm to reveal a world where perfect lives hide monstrous lies-and where the fight for freedom can become a matter of life and death.
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