Hayley’s Kitchen—the namesake Italian restaurant that our heroine, Hayley Powell, recently opened in her small town of Bar Harbor, Maine—is doing excellent business. Even before turning such profits, though, she’d made it part of her mission to spread the financial love to other local enterprises, promoting their businesses as best she could on her menu.…
Bernie and Libby Simmons have plenty of experience catering for all sorts of occasions out of their cafe, A Little Taste of Heaven. Being asked to provide the refreshments for a dog wedding, however, is a first even for them. They’d certainly be more hesitant if the person asking wasn’t one of their employees, Googie.…
Thanksgiving is coming to the pet-loving town of Wagtail, Virginia! With the holiday comes their annual Dog and Cat Gingerbread House Contest, drawing dozens of entrants from all over the country with its lucrative cash prizes. This year, the competition will be held in the newly built convention center on land bequeathed to the town…
Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly is both pleased and a little nervous when local socialite Misty Dawn asks her to throw a birthday party for one of the latter’s sorority sisters. Courtney has thrown several fairy-themed parties for kids before but never one for adults. Misty assures her that guest of honor Odine Oates…
Tourist season is well underway on beautiful, historic Mackinac Island. Hotel and fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy is reveling in business prosperity and the romantic bliss of her steadily growing relationship with local police officer Rex Manning. The only thing she really needs to work on now, in her opinion, is improving her civic ties…
It could be the stress of opening up her dream restaurant, but chef Delilah O’Leary is having a hard time keeping her fiery temper in check as opening night draws near. When her laidback fiancé and primary investor, Sam Van Meter, is nonchalant about a mistake that renders their restaurant signage unusable, Delilah flips out…
Sally Solari thinks she’s recovering just fine from a mild sinus infection when she receives a rude shock: she can’t smell a thing and, as a result, can’t taste a thing either. Her doctor assures her that there’s nothing to do but wait for her nerve endings to regenerate, a process that could take mere…
The fog is rolling in on Charleston, South Carolina, on the fateful evening that Theodosia Browning decides to take a shortcut while walking to the tea shop she owns. Her path leads her through St. Philip’s Graveyard—the kind of place guaranteed to spook the faint of heart—but Theo, fortunately, doesn’t believe in ghostly menaces. Unfortunately,…
Carly Hale is looking forward to the cooling weather of fall, especially after the tumultuous and literally murderous events of the long, hot summer draw to a close. All she wants to do now is focus on her grilled cheese restaurant and, perhaps, win her Vermont town of Balsam Dell’s annual Halloween Scary-Licious Smorgasbord competition.…
Yale Yee lives an unusual life for a modern 30-year-old. Eschewing cell phone, personal computer, or car, she works in a bookstore near where she lives and pines for the simpler days of old—at least until her bosses can no longer afford to keep employing her. With ample free time now, she reluctantly agrees to…
