Claire Weatherly lived in New York, but she's decided to
leave her hectic, fast-paced lifestyle behind and trade it
in for one that's slower and less stress-filled. She moves
to Heavenly, Pennsylvania, which is mostly an Amish town.
She originally went there planning to visit her Read more...
CAST ON, KILL OFF is the latest in the Knitting Mystery
series.
Here, we find Kelly Flynn's friend Megan gearing up for her
wedding. Regular readers of the series know that Megan is a
bit of a control freak with a need for routine, so having a
wedding to Read more...
Lila Wilkins worked for the Dunston Herald for twenty years,
but after being laid-off, she had to formulate her back-up
plan. She doesn't have time to lose, either, as her son is
in high school, and she wants to be able to send him to the
university Read more...
It's the grand opening of the Charleston, SC, Neptune
Aquarium, and everyone who's anyone has turned out for the
big event. Theodosia ("Theo") Browning is the owner of
Indigo Tea Shop, and she's there as a caterer, providing
tea, scones, and assorted sandwiches. The entire event is Read more...
In this second installment of the Magical Dressmaking
Mystery series, Harlow Jane Cassidy (descendant of outlaw
Butch Cassidy) finds herself making debutante dresses for
the Margaret Moffette Lea Pageant and Ball. The entire town
of Bliss, Texas, gets fired up for this event, so Harlow
knows that the dress she Read more...
Now that pastry chef Rita Lucero has resolved to stay in New
Orleans and run the bakery she inherited from her deceased
(kind-of) ex-husband Phillipe, she really has her hands
full! Carnival season has arrived and Zydeco Cakes is busy
not only filling their regular orders but making Read more...
Rachel Whitley is a high school senior who works part-time
at Violetta's, a salon in St. Elizabeth, Georgia. She is
excited about an upcoming field-trip at the local Rothmere
mansion in which some classmates will go ghost hunting. The
problem is that the group is short one Read more...
Isabelle "Betts" Winston teaches cooking at her
grandmother's cooking school, Gram's Country Cooking School,
located in Broken Rope, Missouri. The history of Broken Rope
is well-known - outlaws, bank robbers, hangings, etc.
Tourists come all summer to take in the history and see the
re-enactments that bring Read more...
Olivia ("Ollie") Paras is the White House executive chef. As
such, her goal is to create and execute the best cuisine for
the First Family. At the beginning of the book, she is
paired with the White House sensitivity director, Peter
Everett Sargeant, to plan a birthday event for the Read more...
Olivia "Livie" Greyson owns The Gingerbread House, a
speciality cookie shop. She is aided by her best friend
Maddie. Together, Livie and Maddie design cookie-themed
parties and marketing ploys for the quaint shop. However, a
fellow shop owner is not as taken with their delicious
treats as most other Read more...
Dmitri Fane is a world-class pairs figure skater. Just a few
weeks before the Olympic trials, he goes missing. His
partner, Dara, hires Charlie Swift and her investigative
firm to find him. Charlie's business partner is Gigi
Goldman, who became a partner when her husband left her with Read more...
Detective Carly Edwards had it all - a job she loved, a
husband she admired, and a dog they both adored. And in a
night when her regular partner had the night off, everything
changed. The officer filling in for her partner (a known
loose cannon) emptied an entire magazine on Read more...
Catherine McLeod is an investigative journalist with the
Denver Journal, and she's been covering Mathews' campaign.
She is assigned to the cover the story, and a woman calls in
anonymously to report that she knows who did it. In fact,
after seeing a television news story shows the police Read more...
Josie Giancola is one of the leading button experts in the
country, and she is now realising her dream of owning a
button shop, the Button Box, in Chicago. She is shocked when
it gets ransacked one day, but she is determined to soldier
on, even though one of the Read more...
Marcy Singer is the owner of her own embroidery shop in
small Tallulah Falls, Oregon. With Valentine's Day fast
approaching, it doesn't surprise her that she gets a bride,
Cassandra, in her shop who wants help embellishing her
bridal gown. What does surprise Marcy though is that the Read more...
Thayer Wentworth never really felt she truly belonged at
home. She is a tomboy born into a wealthy family, and the
only person who really understood her died when she was
young. Her mother's priority is to push Thayer to the
nearest wealthy young man, marry her off, and Read more...
Clare Cosi is a single mom (of a young woman who is studying
abroad) who manages the Village Blend coffee shop, which is
owned by her former mother-in-law. Her employees are an
eclectic mix of students and aspiring actors that, after
awhile, become like family. Clare's newest Read more...
Stacy Graysin is the co-owner and manager of Graysin Motion
(it took me awhile to get the pun), a ballroom dance studio.
The other owner is her dance partner and former romantic
partner Rafe Acosta. What broke them up? When Stacy found
him in bed with another woman. Unfortunately Read more...
Lilly Hawkins is a "shooter," which essentially means that
she is a television news photographer. As she's riding back
to the station, she sees a coroner's van going up a mountain
and decides to follow it, knowing that it's headed toward a
wild fire that has been Read more...
Meg Corey's first year as an apple farmer has wrapped up,
and she's just waiting for her business manager Bree to
finish calculating the numbers so they can find out how the
year went. As this is going on, the area gets a snow storm
that knocks out Read more...
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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