Where Love Blooms and Secrets Have Thorns

Rose Adebayo has spent six years caring for the magnificent rose garden her mother left behind. To Rose, the garden is more than a collection of beautiful flowers—it is the last piece of her mother she has left.

But when her family faces financial ruin, Rose is forced to make an impossible choice: surrender control of the garden to a powerful business empire or risk losing everything her family owns.

Then a mysterious stranger named Adrian Vale arrives with a shocking warning.

Rose's mother's roses are worth far more than anyone ever imagined.

Hidden beneath their beauty is a secret involving stolen research, powerful families, dangerous enemies, and a mysterious organization willing to kill to possess what Rose's mother discovered.

As Rose begins searching for answers, she uncovers a hidden ledger, secret letters, a forgotten estate, and a truth about her mother's death that changes everything she believed about her family.

But the deeper Rose digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Someone close to her has been hiding a devastating secret.

Someone is watching.

And someone will do anything to stop Rose from discovering who is behind it all.

With Adrian by her side, Rose must confront betrayal, grief, forbidden secrets, and the darkest parts of her family's past. To protect the garden and honor her mother's legacy, she will have to find the courage to face the thorns surrounding the truth.

Because sometimes the most beautiful things hide the deepest wounds.

And sometimes, becoming a queen means surviving the thorns.

Queen of Roses is an emotional romantic mystery about love, family, betrayal, courage, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried.

L. J. Carter & Sarah R. Jackson

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