Kensington Books’ latest seasonal collection of culinary cozy novellas is perfect for curling up with a hot beverage and taking a much-needed holiday break! Carlene O’Connor’s Ireland-set tale opens the book and gives the collection its name. Fans of her Irish Village Mystery series will be thrilled to see familiar characters here. Our heroine, Siobhan…
Our heroine, Mac Almeida, and her fiancé, Tim, are getting married! In the lead-up to their New Year’s nuptials, they’re renovating the house that they’ll be living in as a married couple. The old Cape Cod cottage is comfortable but could use a little extra modernization. Mac is most excited at the prospect of installing…
Bailey King has been roped into helping with Harvest, Ohio’s first annual village-wide Thanksgiving celebration, with dinner seating both in the town square and in the church just beyond it. The formidable organizer, Margot Rawlings, has put Bailey in charge of desserts, a natural fit given the fact that she runs the now-famous Swissmen Sweets…
When Leila Khoury left her Vermont hometown to take a teaching job all the way down in Florida, the last thing she expected was to come home for the very worst of reasons: her own father’s funeral. Victor Khoury had been universally beloved in Sugar Ridge, or so Leila believed. Someone had certainly cared a…
Madison Montgomery is fleeing the social (media) disaster of her doctor fiancé leaving her at the live-streamed altar by flying to New Bison, a small town in Michigan. Her recently deceased grand Aunt Octavia has willed her a house, a bakery, and a dog, and Madison is more than happy to take a break from…
Baker Lily Roberts is perfectly happy with the progress that her months-old tea room, Tea by the Sea, is making in establishing itself as a neighborhood institution in North Augusta, Cape Cod. So when her grandmother Rose and best friend, Bernie, nominate her for America Bakes!—a reality TV show that pits bakeries and similar establishments…
Lila Macapagal’s Brew-ha Cafe is starting to do really well in her Midwestern hometown of Shady Pines as the cafe’s first Christmas season approaches. While she bakes up delicious treats, her business partners, Adeena and Elena, are in charge of the beverages and the plant boutique, respectively. With sales trending upward, the three women are…
Baker and lighthouse owner Lindsey Bakewell is looking forward to participating in Beacon Harbor’s annual Blueberry Festival for the very first time. As a recent transplant from Wall Street, she feels like she’s finally settling into the small Michigan town, especially after being asked to join the festival’s organizing committee. In what seems like a…
Miranda Trent is looking forward to hosting her very first corporate retreat at Paint & Shine, the hiking tour company she runs that combines outdoorsiness with art and a bit of her family moonshine. If the retreat goes well, it could be the start of a lucrative revenue stream for her fledgling enterprise. To this…
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.…
