"Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi, the sketchy frozen piza dough baron, walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems to be on the up-and-up, and sprucing up her beloved pizzeria, A Slice of Delight, with $25,000 in first-prize money would certainly be a dream come true"--From publisher description.

Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.

A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.