Brightleaf

A murder mystery/romantic comedy about a sexually repressed do-gooder and her life as the owner of The Rapturous Rest, a boarding house."I smile and laugh all the way through, and by the end I feel pretty darn good about life. That's no small feat." -- April Gray Wilder FICTION FIX. Mary Beth Green leads a peaceful life running her boarding house and conducting amateur group therapy in her living room until she's compelled to steal a dog and lie to cover it up-- for "righteous" reasons. When one of her former boarders up and dies she worries that a murderer is living at the Rapturous Rest. Mary Beth gets busy solving the murder while fighting off the unwanted advances of a hypnotist and other gentlemen callers.