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She can’t keep a plant alive. Now she’s supposed to solve a murder. Meg Trammell didn’t plan on moving to small-town North Carolina—and she definitely didn’t plan on inheriting her late aunt’s cottage, a spot in Bellford’s most cutthroat gardening club… or a front-row seat to a dead body in the rose garden. When the Garden Society’s reigning champion turns up dead among her prize-winning blooms, Meg becomes the last person to see her alive—and the first person the police side-eye. The Garden Tour must go on (according to the terrifying club president). The suspects are ...

In Manhattan's most exclusive hotel, someone just committed the paws-ible crime... Pet sitter Wren Collins has finally found her footing. She has a room at The Bellworth co-op, a growing client list, and a café fund that's almost within reach. When she's hired to care for a pampered Pomeranian belonging to a visiting tech billionaire at the luxurious Carlisle Grand hotel, the generous pay could put her dream over the finish line. Then the billionaire turns up dead in his penthouse suite. The police suspect corporate espionage. The hotel wants it hushed up. And the tiny, anxious Pomeranian ...

Spring has finally arrived in Sparrow Creek, and Vera Holloway is up to her elbows in buttercream. The town's most anticipated wedding of the decade is just weeks away, and Vera has been commissioned to create the cake—a towering confection meant to symbolize new beginnings for a family haunted by tragedy. Thirty years ago, a groom died at his wedding reception. Anaphylactic shock. A baker was blamed, a business was destroyed, and the bride was left in her white dress, a widow before she was ever a wife. Now that bride's granddaughter is getting married—at the same venue, in the same ...

When Vera Holloway inherits her grandmother’s beloved bakery, she expects early mornings, stubborn dough, and the pressure of living up to a small-town legend. She does not expect a break-in. Or a missing recipe book. Or a dead baking judge—found with a croissant by his side. With the Sparrow Creek Baking Fair just weeks away, Vera’s future depends on recipes she no longer has. But when the theft of her grandmother’s secret croissant techniques is followed by murder, it becomes clear the crime wasn’t about money or antiques—it was about pastry. As gossip swirls and old rivalries...

When the town's most prestigious gala turns deadly, Vera discovers that some family recipes come with a side of murder. Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson The Rolling Pin is thriving, and baker Vera Holloway has finally found her place in Sparrow Creek. So when she's invited to the exclusive Hartwell Founder's Day Gala, she's honored—until the wealthy hostess collapses after sampling a cookie laced with poison. Trapped at the grand estate by a raging nor'easter, with no way to call for help, Vera and her detective boyfriend must unmask a killer among the stranded ...

A jazz singer's ghost holds the key to betrayal, murder, and the truth Declan Gallagher has spent a century trying to forget… Magnolia Thorne has survived haunted bayous, an alligator sidekick, gossiping ghosts, and a sentient cottage with the emotional stability of a Victorian widow—but nothing has prepared her for turning thirty. She's hoping for a quiet week in her cemetery home. Instead, beneath a moonlit Louisiana sky, a woman in sequins rises from a cracked crypt and starts singing. Lila Devaux—Gravesend's most glamorous 1920s jazz star—has been dead nearly a century, but she ...

In Manhattan’s most exclusive building, someone just committed the purr-fect crime… Pet sitter Wren Ballard spends her days caring for the animals of New York’s wealthy elite while saving every spare dollar to open her dream cat café. When one of her clients—formidable theater producer Vivienne Cross—dies suddenly, the Bellworth building quietly accepts the verdict: natural causes. Everyone except Vivienne’s Persian cat. Misha has started hoarding strange objects under the radiator in the guest room… including a wine cellar keycard and a torn document tied to a heated ...

Love’s easier to spill than coffee. It’s been over a year since the Twilight Incident, and Elderberry Bay still glows in eternal dusk. While Mara and Oliver’s tea shop thrives, Ivy Quinn’s coffeehouse—The Moonbeam Roastery—runs on caffeine, chaos, and spells powered by espresso steam. When the town’s ley lines begin to surge, stoic fae scholar Darien Rowan arrives to diagnose the “emotional contamination” in local spellwork—starting with Ivy’s. He believes logic will fix the imbalance. She believes another latte will. As moonfire meets dark roast, sparks fly, mugs ...

Christmas in Gravesend was never going to be quiet—but this year, the ghosts are caroling. When an unseasonal freeze sweeps through Magnolia Thorne’s haunted cemetery, even her sentient cottage is shivering in shades of blue. The bayou’s turned to ice, spectral visitors are stirring, and a flapper ghost named Beverly insists Magnolia has three nights to solve a ninety-seven-year-old murder. Beverly’s brother, Declan Gallagher—a gruff, century-old bootlegger ghost with an Irish accent and unfinished business—has one goal: set his sister’s spirit free before Christmas dawn. With...

Inheriting a haunted cemetery wasn't on Magnolia Thorne's bingo card for her fresh start in small-town Louisiana. When her eccentric great-aunt leaves her the Moonlit Mausoleum Cemetery—complete with a sentient cottage that broadcasts her emotions in Technicolor and a bad-tempered alligator with a marshmallow addiction—Magnolia thinks her biggest challenge will be mastering a lawn mower. She's wrong. Dead wrong. The cemetery is restless. Whispers drift from bootlegger tunnels beneath the grounds, and on the full moon, a devastatingly handsome ghost materializes in her kitchen with a ...

She brews magical tea by moonlight. He’s made of moonlight and stardust. A Cozy Witch-Meets-Elf Romance. Mara Larkspur’s dream is simple: run The Crooked Spoon Tea Room, make a little magic, and keep her chaotic spells from exploding the kettle again. But one moonlit night, a wish charm gone wrong brings an unexpected visitor—an exiled elf who appears in a swirl of starlight and broken teacups. Oliver Sylvain has spent two centuries trapped between worlds, cursed for a crime he didn’t commit. The spell that summoned him binds his fading magic to Mara’s tea-brewing aura, forcing ...

When Magnolia Thorne arrives in Gravesend for her great-aunt’s funeral, the last thing she expects is to inherit a crumbling cemetery—and a cranky alligator. Boudreaux, the cemetery’s scaly mascot, isn’t just sulking over tourists. He’s mourning his twin, Beau… who inconveniently refuses to stay buried. On the night of the full moon, Beau’s ghost rises from the bayou and insists his death wasn’t an accident. Now Maggie's caught in her first Gravesend mystery, tangled up in gossiping townsfolk, restless spirits, and two very opinionated alligators. If she can’t solve the ...

Before the murders… before the mysteries… there was Winston. Wren Ballard thought pet sitting for Manhattan’s elite would be simple. Walk the dogs. Feed the cats. Save enough money to open her dream cat café someday. But when one of her wealthy Upper East Side clients dies after a violent late-night argument, Wren is the only one who suspects the death wasn’t an accident. Especially when the client’s golden retriever, Winston, starts retrieving strange objects from around the penthouse. A pill bottle. A torn envelope. A clue someone tried to hide. The police dismiss Wren’s ...

A Sparrow Creek Prequel Long before the bakery was Vera Holloway’s, Eleanor Holloway learned what it meant to win—and what it could cost. A baking fair. A perfect croissant. And a dead judge with Eleanor Holloway’s rolling pin beside him. When sabotage threatens Sparrow Creek’s beloved Baking Fair—and a murder puts her at the center of the investigation—baker Eleanor Holloway must uncover the truth before her bakery, her reputation, and her future crumble. With a sharp mind, steady hands, and a suspiciously intelligent cat, Eleanor follows a trail of secrets someone was ...

The origin story of Elderberry Bay’s first tea witch. Elderberry Bay hums with gossip, salt air, and secrets. Esmeralda Larkspur just wants to reopen her crooked little tea room and keep her temperamental magic under control. But when a stranger washes ashore in a storm—claiming to have fallen through the stars—her quiet seaside life turns luminous. As Esmeralda and Aric Vale uncover a hidden ley line beneath the harbor, their connection deepens into something both impossible and inevitable. Yet every spell has a cost, and their discovery may awaken a power that changes Elderberry Bay...