The Malice Plant now available

If Wishes Were Spaceships

When Jazlyn is forced to make an emergency landing on a quarantine planet, she finds it inhabited by a wealthy scion of a galactic dynasty and an anxious techie. Cut off from all communication, surrounded by a thicket of monsterous carnivorous plants, Jazlyn must find a way to repair her ship before Sterneworth, the planet’s resident tyrant, does something drastic. Can she trust Blaine, the techie who is under Sterneworth’s thumb, and who wants off the planet by any means? Jazlyn has never been one to knuckle under or buckle under pressure. Nor is finesse is one of her skills. Has the sassy spacer who’s used to getting her way met her match in the power and might of the Sterneworth dynasty? Everyone on the planet has a secret agenda. She has a ship to repair…

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The Malice Plant

“Gardening with intent to kill…. Ainy Rainwater’s fast-paced and witty mystery is a winner...and she handles the gardening aspects of the story with such a sure hand she made me believe in the malice plant.” —Lillian Stewart Carl, author of the Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron mystery series

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The Malice Plant now available

The Malice Plant, a mystery novel by Ainy Rainwater, is now available in the Amazon Kindle Store (US) and from Amazon Kindle UK . It is also available in multiple ebook formats from Smashwords. A preview excerpt can be downloaded from Smashwords. We have “jumped” the announced released date in order to try to compensate for the lag between when the book is distributed to online stores and when it actually appears in some stores. The Malice Plant will also soon be available from Apple iBookstore (Germany, US, UK, France, Canada), Barnes & Noble, Borders, Sony, Kobo (formerly Shortcovers), the Diesel eBook Store, Stanza, Aldiko, FBReader and Word-Player.

The Malice Plant

After Ivy Willowby dies in her garden with a Malice Plant in her hand, Rosemary Wilde is stunned to find she’s the beneficiary of Ivy’s will—if she outlives the survivorship clause. With potential heirs buzzing around like angry bees, burglaries, and unexpected liaisons, the Cedar Lake Garden club isn’t lacking either dirt or manure. But who—or what—killed Ivy? When Rosemary decides to test the “curse” of the Malice Plant, she finds there’s more than enough malice to go around.