Juliet MacLeod's schrijven duikt in de complexiteit van de menselijke psyche, waarbij ze vaak complexe personages verkent binnen unieke narratieve landschappen. Haar proza wordt gekenmerkt door een lyrische kwaliteit en een diepgaand begrip van de motivaties van haar personages. MacLeod's werk onderzoekt regelmatig de wisselwerking tussen ervaringen uit het verleden en de huidige realiteit, en de manieren waarop individuen omgaan met interne en externe strijd. Lezers voelen zich aangetrokken tot haar vermogen om suggestieve verhalen te creëren die lang in de verbeelding blijven hangen.
"Bryony Taylor stumbles upon the body of a woman left in an unlocked mausoleum in a local cemetery. She decides to dig for more information on who this woman was, and finds out she and her twin brother supposedly died twenty years ago! Now it's up to Bryony to unearth what really happened, and who killed her now."-- taken from p. 4 of cover
A haven of last resort for Saxon Lake's neighbors.Herbalist and small-town sleuth Bryony Taylor finds herself with a new case when a distraught wife comes to her, asking for help finding her missing husband. When Bryony does a little digging, she discovers that Sadie's husband mysteriously left his brokerage firm to work for a ski resort developer who's trying to clear out the residents of Bard Creek Canyon.The plot thickens when Sadie's home is ransacked, and Bryony suddenly has a new houseguest. Sadie seems to fit right in with Bryony's quirky friends and her small menagerie of animals. But the more Bryony and her boyfriend, Saxon Lake's sheriff, dig into the mystery of Sadie's disappearing husband, the more questions arise about just what he was into and what Sadie might be hiding.Bryony must move quickly to solve this mystery, before everyone in Bard Creek Canyon ends up homeless.