Where the Poppies Grow
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In the quiet town of Redvale, where peach orchards stretch for miles and poppy fields burn crimson under the sun, the annual Peach & Poppy Festival is about to begin. But when orchard owner Samuel Greaves is found dead, his body surrounded by carefully arranged poppies, the town's golden summer turns dark.
Lara Kensington, a true crime podcaster in search of her next big story, teams up with Ivy Thorne, a local florist with ties to the victim. At first, it seems like a simple case of poison-peach pits ground into cyanide-but as they dig deeper, Lara and Ivy uncover whispers of an old disappearance, buried secrets, and a past that refuses to stay hidden.
When another body turns up, the message becomes clear: some secrets should have stayed buried in the poppy fields.
But Lara and Ivy won't stop until they uncover the truth-even if it kills them.
𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙 𝟙𝟞𝕥𝕙 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝
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