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As the co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Though helping to plan a wedding can be stressful, its nothing compared to the groom turning up dead. A designer of eye-catching bridal bouquetsmany of them based on the Victorian meanings behind each flowerAudrey Bloom is used to celebrations that end with happily ever after. In fact, every couple shes worked with is still together, living in wedded bliss. But her perfect record is about to be broken.Her childhood friend Jenny Whitney has reeled in the most eligible bachelor in Ramble, Virginia, and shes hired Audrey to design the bouquet. But before Jenny can walk down the aisle clutching her blend of anemone, scabious, and pussy willow a floral disaster in Audreys mind, the groom is found deadsprinkled with bits of a bouquet.



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Beverly Allen

Beverly Allen, Ph.D.,is an author, lecturer and teacher in the humanities and spiritual traditions. Holding a Bachelors Degree in Music from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Italian from Columbia University, and Ph.D in Italian Studies from U.C. Berkeley, she has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Cornell University, the University of Zagreb, and Syracuse University, where she is William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Emerita. Her diverse career includes a decade of investigative journalism and activism in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s. Insiders at the U.N. have said her Rape Warfare influenced the creation of a new international law making rape a Crime Against Humanity. A prize-winning literary translator and screenwriter, Beverly Allen now lives in Berkeley, California, where she is writing, lecturing and teaching. Her study of genocide and mass rape led her to an understanding that the Sacred Feminine is missing in Western Culture and the world in general. Tracing and reviving this is central to her work now. Her current topics of study include Gnosticism, early Christianity and the figure of Mary Magdalene, Dante and the Sacred Feminine, Fairy Tales, medieval European heresy and courtly love, Jung's work, and the literature of Italy's storied cities. A Certified Usui Reiki Master, she practices and values highly the arts of music, dance and knitting, she loves dogs and gardens, and she travels often to Italy and Scandinavia.



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