This is not where Toni Holmes expected to be. How did she
end up back in her old hometown, the small town of Oiltop,
after she ventured off for an exciting life in Chicago?
As reluctant as Toni had been to return, she is now
determined to stay and to make her new business, an allergy-
safe and gluten free bakery a success despite being right
in the heart of the wheat growing breadbasket of Kansas.
After her mother died, Toni had inherited the old Victorian
family home and now honours the tradition that the grand
old place would always be open to family members who want
to stay there. Hence, her brother Tim.
On the plus side, her childhood best friend forever, Tasha
Wilkes, is very encouraging and helping her with preparing
for the grand opening of Oiltop's first gluten free
patisserie? With all their planning, what could go wrong?
Lots of things, both large and small, including a local
farmer irate at the drop in wheat prices bent on sabotaging
her grand event and a murder almost on the front of her new
sparkling storefront bakery! If that isn't enough, why is
she now under suspicion?
GLUTEN FOR PUNISHMENT is the first book in A Baker's
Treat
Mystery, a new series by Nancy J. Parra and it is a
winning
recipe for success! As a delicious cozy mystery, it is
filled with quirky characters, handsome romantic interests
and at least a Baker's dozen of unusual happenings, capped
with a twist at the end. Having a severe gluten allergy
herself, Parra appropriately sprinkles her story with
interesting facts about different products with hidden
gluten in them and the impact of celiac disease.
Toni is a likable and realistic character who is love shy
after her divorce, yet wonders if she could find love when
she has to work almost non-stop. If this isn't enough,
there are wonderful gluten-free recipes at the end of book
where they have been so mouthwateringly described. GLUTEN
FOR PUNISHMENT is a witty and wily read that will appeal to
both gluten intolerant and gluten tolerant readers alike!
Enjoy!
Gluten-free baker Toni Ryder may not cook with wheat, but
when there's a criminal on the loose, she'll do what it
takes to figure out who has their finger in the pie¦ Even
though Toni is used to going against the grain by preparing
allergy-safe, gluten-free products for her online bakery,
Baker's Treat, opening a storefront in the middle of wheat
country Kansas might be biting off more than she can chew.
The town is already skeptical of her flour-free ways, but
when a local wheat farmer is murdered outside her
patisserie, skepticism turns into outright suspicion. With
the help of her eccentric grandmother, her handsome lawyer,
and the sexy new widower in town, Toni is determined to find
the real criminal before bad publicity and increasingly
personal acts of vandalism shut her down.
But when another suspect winds up dead, Toni realizes that
this half-baked
killer isn't just trying to get her to close shop-he's
trying to make sure that she's made her last gluten-free
cookie...forever. INCLUDES GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES
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