Daisy, Plucked

Hana Holm is dead. Everyone in town believes that she committed suicide, including her lifelong best friend and recent ex-girlfriend, Daisy Polo. But when Hana's ghost appears and tells Daisy it wasn't suicide, but murder, Daisy is driven to figure out the real circumstances of Hana's death while still dealing with the grief of losing someone so important to her. She has to follow the cryptic clues left behind by her first love while collecting evidence that Hana didn't kill herself, unraveling a thread Daisy didn't know was winding through her life.

Between Daisy solving the mystery, follow flashes of Hana's life as defined by her love for Daisy and her quest to discover the truth about her father's murder. Despite the killer confessing to the murder in his suicide note, Hana starts to find signs that there was more to her father's death she can't ignore. She hatches a plot to uncover the truth, but she doesn't know how far the people responsible for her father's death will go to keep their lies from being exposed.

C. E. Witherow is a queer writer living in Rochester, NY with her border collie mix, Shakespeare. When she's not writing, she co-hosts a Taylor Swift podcast called Swiftlore with her best friend, curates hyper-specific playlists, and spends too much time on TikTok. This is her first novel, and she is so excited to finally share it with the world.