Charity Chance, Chat to her friends, is an iris hybridizer who finds herself embroiled in unexpected intrigue when a confusing warning from a neighbor, the discovery of a rare green iris in her field, and an intruder in her garden coincide. Her neighbor goes to investigate and disappears. In the middle of the night, Chat is terrified by a stranger who shows up at her door. Can she trust he is who he claims to be or is he a threat? A note from the missing neighbor is found in her mailbox, but what does it mean? Chat finds herself defending a man she’s not sure she can trust, one who is suddenly suspect in an unexplained death. The Sheriff’s investigator assigned to the death pushes all of her buttons as she tries to solve the crime herself. Chat is an entertaining narrator, full of colorful asides and observations that make for an enjoyable read.