"While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa's waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele's love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah's advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she's not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned...

Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day.

Whenever things get too serious, baker Lolly Crocker knows it's time to break it off with a guy. Without fail, her gut would tell her that the man she was dating was not Mr. Right. The one exception is Shaun Montana, her high school sweetheart. With Shaun, life felt complete; but her mother convinced her she was too young to be tied down, and Lolly broke up with him the night before she left for college. While Lolly keeps every relationship light,...

In a bakery on the eve of Nochebuena, sugar figurines come to life and a cake catastrophe is averted.

CHRISTMAS CARAMEL MURDER: The town's production of A Christmas Carol turns deadly. CHRISTMAS CAKE MURDER: Hannah agrees to help with a fancy Christmas Ball in honor of a local resident, who has a talent for crime fiction that bleeds into real life.

"They say one's home is one's castle, but when it comes to Wynter Castle, Merry would like it to belong to someone else. But until a buyer bites, she could use some extra dough, so she decides to take in renters. The idea pans out, and Merry's able to find a handful of tenants eager to live in a real castle. The only problem is most of them are crumby, tea-swilling old biddies. The Legion of Horrible Ladies, as Merry calls them, is led by the terribly...

"After inheriting her uncle's Red River Gorge homestead in Eastern Kentucky--smack dab in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest--Miranda comes up with a perfect business plan for summer tourists: pairing outdoor painting classes with sips of local moonshine, followed by a mouthwatering sampler of the best in southern cooking. To Miranda's delight, Paint & Shine is a total success--until someone kills the cook. As the town's outsider, suspicion...

"Sammi's life feels just like her vanilla cake recipe: boring. But she dreams of something brighter and bolder and much more fun. And one night--with her recipe card tucked under her pillow like a wish--Sammi's dream comes true! Baker extraordinaire Christina Tosi brings us this joyous story oif embracing creativity and celebrating the sweeter, more colorful side of life."--

Hannah Swenson investigates the murder of a family reunion attendee whose murderer could be a man suffering from Alzheimer's.

"Rosaline Palmer is just barely holding her life together. Her paycheck might as well be parchment paper, her house is falling apart, and help from her parents is always served with a generous slice of disappointment and judgment. And the cherry on top? Now her daughter's school is charging all sorts of outlandish extra fees for trips that Rosaline can't afford. But where there's a whisk there's a way. . . and Rosaline has just landed a place on the...