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POISON IVY
A Novel Based on a True Crime That Shook 1920s America
Rockford, Illinois, 1928. A car explodes in a quiet neighborhood, sending metal shards and smoke into the summer sky. Vernon Plager is dead. His wife, Ivy, is crumpled on the lawn in her mourning dress-too stunned to scream, too calm for comfort.
The newspapers call it sabotage. The police call it murder. And soon, they call her something else: Poison Ivy.
Before the headlines and the courtroom drama, Ivy Koch Plager was a motherless farm girl who married at sixteen to escape loneliness, only to find herself trapped in a hollow marriage. When a red-haired draftsman named Paul Reed entered her life, Ivy found something like passion-brief, illicit, and impossible to erase.
Now, Paul is on trial for her husband's murder, and Ivy is the star witness. But behind her veil of grief lies a string of secrets: an affair, a failed first attempt, a pregnancy quietly erased, and a silence that may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Based on true events and drawn from family history, Poison Ivy is a chilling tale of seduction, complicity, and what it costs to survive when the world only sees what you let them.
