Casey Calhoun is not your typical assistant gardener at the White House.  She was brought in by the First Lady to make the gardening at the White House more organic, more earth friendly.  Casey is also very organized, observant and detail oriented.  While getting the grounds ready for the annual Easter Egg Roll she is also developing a plan to present to the Grounds Committee for implementing her new organic ideas.

Fighting back a case of the nerves about her presentation she ventures out to weed one of the park’s gardens.  While there she is attacked from behind and ends up face down in the garden.  As she comes to and is explaining what happened to a Secret Service Agent, she notices some broken limbs on a tree. When she works her way over to the damage, it leads both her and the agent to make a shocking discovery.  A dead woman that has been stuffed into a trash can.  Casey can’t help herself from digging into case and trying to root out the killer.  Doing so she puts herself not only in danger from the assailant but also may lose her job before she even has a chance to bloom.