Two best friends set out to find a missing socialite in the hopes of claiming a hefty reward–but what happens when their investigation forces them to question both their morals and their friendship in this twisty mystery?
Intrigued? Well read on to discover the cover and synopsis for What Lies Beneath The Flowers by Natasha Díaz, which releases on 14 July 2026 and is now available for preorder.
But first, here’s what Natasha has to say about the cover!
“What Lies Beneath the Flowers is a story about young women learning to define themselves amid high expectations and complicated interpersonal relationships. At first, the idea of flowers felt like a soft, simple balance against the chaos of the missing persons investigation that Pippa and her best friend, Bidi, are thrust into throughout the book. What I came to discover though, is that flowers are not just simple, beautiful things, they experience fear and pain. Flowers learn to communicate and react to their environments the same way humans do and then, like us, they die. I love the way the artist perfectly straddled both ominous and beautiful in this cover. Are they petals? Is that corpse? The interplay between life and death is exactly what I was going for, and I can’t wait to hear what readers think!”
It-girl Estella Aubergine is everything Pippa and Bidi are not: wealthy, popular, influential—missing. But all that could change. Once they find Estella and collect the life-changing reward money her reclusive mother is offering, the overdue bills on Pippa’s family deli will be paid off and Bidi’s summer internship rejections will turn into yeses. They’ll be local celebrities.
Stepping into Estella’s upper-class world to get answers requires navigating razor-sharp compliments and airbrushed lies from Estella’s snobbish friends at Beaumont Academy. Even the administrators at the prestigious school seem to know more than they let on.
The further Pippa and Bidi dig, the more they begin to question themselves, their, futures, and their own friendship. And as each day passes with no solid leads about Estella’s disappearance, the girls hold onto one truth: the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
