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"It's a busy day at the bakery Maeve Conlon owns when she receives a phone call from the high school saying Maeve's employee's daughter, Taylor Dvorak, is ill. Taylor's mom is out on a delivery and Taylor has her own car, so harried Maeve gives the schoolnurse permission to send Taylor home on her own. But Taylor never makes it home. Somewhere between the school and her house, she just vanishes.Not only does Maeve feel responsible, but she can't shake...

Wyatt can just keep his Southern drawl, irresistible smile, and pick-up lines all to himself. Angie made the mistake of sleeping with him not once, but twice. But after he left in the middle of the night so she could see herself out, she returned to her bakery in Philadelphia and forgot him. Or tried to. It seems Angie's pregnant now, and needs to put her life on hold and head back to Bell Buckle. The cards are stacked against them... but what if...

Hannah Swensen of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., discovers her neighbor's head bashed in; Jaine Austen's holiday stay at her parents' home in the Tampa Vistas retirement community is enlivened by the murder of elderly lothario; and, Maine reporter Lucy Stone investigates a four-year-old boy's disappearance. Includes recipes.

Journalist Reba Adams, trying to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local El Paso magazine, must interview the owner of Elsie's German Bakery--and she's no easy subject. Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story. For Elsie, Reba's questions are a stinging reminder of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. And as Elsie's, Reba's, and Reba's fiance Ŕiki Chavez's...

"You've Got Mail meets Julie & Julia in the new foodie fiction from the author of Recipe for Disaster. Top pastry chef Sophie Bernstein and her sommelier fiance were set to have Chicago's culinary wedding of the year...until the groom eloped with someone else in a very public debacle, leaving Sophie splashed across the tabloids--fifty grand in debt on her dream wedding and one-hundred percent screwed on her dream life. The icing on the cake was when...

"Jingle all the way to Silver Bells, Wyoming, where love is a treat! Clumsy, earnest baker Sylvie West has worked at the Christmas Café in Silver Bells, Wyoming, ever since her boozy eggnog fruitcake won the town’s annual holiday bake-off. Her forever happy place, the café complements her sweet, well-ordered life with her roommates: recently widowed Gramps and her yappy chihuahua-pug, Crumpet. So, when Sylvie learns the café might be sold,...

Begged to prove the innocence of a sweet-natured neighbor who has been accused of murdering an unscrupulous curmudgeon, Jake and Ellie race to identify the killer in the face of a wildfire that cuts off their mainland access.

Jake and Ellie are taking a break from perfecting their chocolate pizza recipe to cater a housewarming party hosted by movie icon Ingrid Merryfield. Miss Merryfield is famous for her old-Hollywood glamour. Her new home, Cliff House, has a reputation too--for being haunted. But she isn't concerned, and some of her guests even try to summon a spirit during the party, using a Ouija board. What arrives instead is a freak autumn storm that downs an ancient...

Dulcie the fairy, who likes to work hard as head baker for Queen Clarion, reluctantly takes a vacation.