Theodosia Browning is taking a break from being the owner
and manager of
the Indigo Tea Shop for a day to serve as a bridesmaid for
her friend Delaine
Dish, who is marrying attorney Dougan Granville. The
wedding day, however,
is getting off to a bad start. Delaine's maid Read more...
Ella Mae LeFaye is still getting used to owning the Charmed
Pie Shoppe in
Havenwood, Georgia, where she's taken shelter after leaving
New York when
she discovered her husband cheating on her. The pie shop is
named such
because Ella discovered that she has the ability to bake
into Read more...
Carrie was a slave girl who belonged to Jonathan, but she
was sold at auction
for a year's contract to Mr. Constant, who whisks her away
to a private island
in sunny Greece. There, he immediately decides that she is
ideally suited to
begin training as a pony girl Read more...
Claire Weatherly is the owner of a gift shop in Heavenly,
Pennsylvania, which
is a mostly Amish town. Her gift shop has become a safe
haven for her since
she's settled into the town with her aunt Diane, who owns
Sleep Heavenly, the
town's inn. She, along with Read more...
Devereaux ("Dev") Sinclair, owner of the local five-and-dime
store in Shadow
Bend, Missouri, enjoys her life, for the most part. Her
store, purchased a few
years ago from aging twins, is doing well, as is her side
business of making
custom gift baskets. She's grown accustomed to Read more...
In the latest instalment of the PTA Mystery Series,
Beth Kennedy is taking over
as president of the Tarver Elementary School PTA, much to
the chagrin of her
archenemy Claudia, PTA vice president. The first order of
business is electing
a new secretary, which immediately pits Beth and Read more...
When Bea Cartwright moved to South Bass, a summer resort
island on Lake
Erie, from Manhattan to open a bed-and-breakfast, she
certainly didn't
expect to get involved in a three-way courtroom brawl.
She's unhappy
because her next-door neighbour, new-age cat-lover Chandra
won Read more...
Flower shop owner Abby Knight is getting married to bar
owner and private
investigator Marco Salvare within the next two weeks, but
nothing is going
right. Business at her company, Bloomers, has slowed down
at the same time her coolers have decided to start leaking,
Abby has come down with Read more...
It isn't particularly unusual when Brooklyn Wainwright is
asked to restore a
cookbook, since she's a bookbinder, but she didn't expect
the domino effect
that this simple request would have. The client was her
sister, Savannah, who
is a chef who graduated from the Cordon Bleu in Read more...
It's springtime in Fort Connor, Colorado, which is home to
the House of
Lambspun, a cozy yarn shop owned by Mimi Shafer. The great
news is the the
shop has outgrown the little shop and Mimi has decided to
renovate her
storage space into classroom space, which will allow Read more...
In the second installment of the Southern Quilting
Mystery series, the two
quilting groups in the small town of Dappled Hills, North
Carolina, are vying
for members. More specifically, the Village Quilters, has a
dwindling
membership, while the rival Cut-Ups quilting guild enjoys a
more robust
roster Read more...
Jaymie Leighton collects vintage kitchenware and cookbooks
in the small town
of Queensville, where everyone knows everyone, and most of
the townspeople
have lived there since childhood. Jaymie and Kathy Cooper
were best friends
in high school, but a couple of decades have passed since
then, and Kathy has
refused Read more...
Lila Watkins is settling in to her new promotion as a
literary agent at the Novel
Idea Literary Agency, she's moving into a new house, and
things are going
well with her new boyfriend. What more could she want? But
as she's
moving, she breaks a gorgeous art Read more...
At Henley College, Dr. Sophie Knowles enjoys teaching and
has a knack for
making mathematics coming alive for her students. Although
attending
commencement isn't her favourite use of time, she does enjoy
sending her
students onto the next phase of their lives, be it graduate
school or their
dream Read more...
As the residents of Providence, Ohio, prepare for a
production of Hamlet and
for a wedding involving two popular citizens, Charlotte
Bessette has her hands
full. Her grandmother is spearheading the Shakespearian
production, so
Charlotte is feeding the actors from the cheese shop, the
Fromagerie Bessette,
and she is also Read more...
Maggie Gerber and her friends Ginger, Claire, and Joanne all
are members of
the Good Buy Girls, a group of women dedicated to finding
the best bargains
in the area. Maggie's dream of owning a secondhand shop is
starting to come
to fruition, as she finalises the purchase of Read more...
Josie Giancola has a unique hobby and passion that she's
turned into a
business - collecting buttons. She's the owner of the
Button Box, where she
buys and sells buttons for various uses. Josie is pretty
intrigued when Angela
Morningside brings her a charm string to appraise. Charm
strings Read more...
Timmie Leary-Parker is a forensic nurse who has returned
home to Puckett,
Missouri, where her ailing father lives. The small town
outside of St. Louis
houses Memorial Hospital where Timmie works as an ER nurse
with her
colleagues, most of whom belong to the SSS - the Suckered
Sister Sorority Read more...
Usually, White House Executive Chef Olivia "Ollie" Paras is
going about her business of leading a team of chefs prepping
and cooking official dinners for the White House when she
accidentally gets into trouble investigating various issues
that happen to come into the most famous house in the United
States Read more...
Knitter Ellie Krueger and her husband Ben have started a
llama farm in Plum Harbor, having recently moved there from
Boston. They plan a fiber festival to kick off the grand
opening of the Laughing Llama Farm, and the members of the
Black Sheep knitting group decide to attend. Sadly Read more...
Min Jung
I've been an avid bibliophile since I
was a small child growing up in the
Midwest. More than thirty years later,
a move to the East Coast, and nothing
has changed my reading habits, except
that I no longer have to do it under the
blankets with a tiny light!
The genres I enjoy are mysteries,
thrillers, chick lit (especially Brit
chick lit!), contemporary fiction,
cosies... pretty much anything except
paranormal and historical stuff.
My favourite authors are Brad Meltzer,
Michael Connelly, John Lescroart, Marian
Keyes, Jane Green, Laura Lippman, Meg
Cabot, and Lisa Scottoline. But there
are a whole bevy of others that I adore.
(And I have the three
PACKED-to-the-gills IKEA bookshelves to
prove it!)
When I'm not reading, I love to knit,
watch a variety of television shows,
cook, and socialise with my friends.
I'm a huge sports fan, but I especially
follow football, NASCAR, tennis, hockey,
and most Olympic sports.
I always history classes in school, but I learnt more from my day at a living history museum with my mother (during holiday) than I did during most of my history classes put together! I wish that all history classes made the information as interesting and relatable as the narrators did.
It doesn't really matter to me whether it's a slow burn or an instant attraction, as long as isn't that "yes, yes, we all know you're going to end up together, so why is it taking SO long" type. I think there's a fine line between "slow burn" and just stringing the reader along.
As for what I pair my book with, I like hot tea or hot chocolate, depending on the season.
This sounds like a great book - right up my alley! Good luck with it!
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