Small towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream.Between the police scanners, the coffee ladies, and the senior center, no secret is safe for long. But Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar...especially the police radar.So when her new bakery is linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can't have that.In order to clear her good name and keep her ...

A little bit Jessica Fletcher, a little bit Vicar of Dibley…The Vangie Vale Mysteries is a cozy mystery series set in St. Agnes, MT–a mountain town on the edge of a national park. Vangie is one part pastor, one part baker, and a lot of hijinks ensue because of it.If you enjoy complex cozy mysteries (each book is 300+ pages), more in the vein of a Murder, She Wrote episode, then you’ll probably enjoy Vangie. Or at least… what could it hurt ...

If the Vicar of Dibley and Cupcake Wars had a baby, it would be Vangie Vale.St. Agnes, MT is back and Vangie is at it again! Just when she’d promised to turn over a new leaf of keeping her nose out of people’s business… it’s the same leaf. Here we are all over again.If you enjoy complex cozy mysteries, more in the vein of a Murder, She Wrote episode, then you’ll probably enjoy Vangie. Or at least… what could it hurt to take a look at the f...

Mystery, murder, missing people, and Bunco. Who could ask for anything more?When Vangie brings a few fancy custard tarts to her Bunco group, she's hoping to impress the guest of honor with her pastry skills. But when the guest of honor never shows up and her body is discovered, everyone at the Bunco group is a murder suspect. Wrong place at the wrong time.Vangie Vale finds herself in another predicament trying to solve a murder in a neighboring sma...

Even in the great white North, Vangie gonna Vangie. She just cannot keep herself out of trouble, no matter where she goes. And when an old nemesis shows up and surprises her on her vacation, she can't help but investigate.This was originally written as a novella for the Passport to Murder anthology in Summer of 2021, but it's on its own now, and we hope you enjoy!

I never thought Edward would come back...When the court case against my ex was finished, I thought we were finished, too. But it turns out, it was only the beginning.Victim in the Valley is Book Four in the Vangie Vale Mysteries Series and provides so many answers about what really happened "back then" with Vangie. I hope you enjoy!SECOND EDITION: First published as Vangie Vale and the Larcenous Lava CakeRECIPE...

Just when Vangie Vale’s life was getting back to normal......after a murder that rocked her little Rocky Mountain tourist town, she found herself in the middle of another murder... as the chief suspect.Vangie stood shocked on the side of the curb as the sheriff stretched yellow crime scene tape around the front of her new bakery. Wouldn’t this make a lovely headline in next week’s paper: Local Baker Kills Parishioner With Pudding. Vangie’s road back to good graces ...

Just when you think you’re turning over a new leaf... surprise! It’s the old leaf.Yeah, I can't help myself. Even when I'm on vacation in the Outer Banks, if there's even a sniff of a crime... even the whiff of a murder... I can't help but get drawn into it.In another life, I should have been a cop.Instead, I'm gonna follow this tattooed guy with a gun all the way down this beachy road because he said something weird in the bakery once. Yeah, it's like I'll...

Anne de Cheyne has a choice. She can play the dutiful daughter and allow her mother to sell her to a greasy English sheriff, or she can take control of her own life and find her own match. After a frightening run-in with her promised husband reveals a dark secret, she makes a desperate choice. Flight. Aedan Donne needs easy money and no-questions-asked. When Milene de Cheyne offers him enough to pay all debts, requests complete silence, and pays half up front, just for a simple rec...

Get swept away by daring romance in the first novel in the Claimed by the Highlander series.In the Highlands of Scotland, plays for power are fought without rules, treachery and intrigue hold court, and, in one woman’s heart, danger stirs as relentlessly as passion...Wrongfully accused of murder and left to die in a hellish Highland dungeon, Ana Bisset has lost all hope of freedom. But the beautiful healer’s luck takes an unexpected turn when a hoo...

A lady must pretend to be the mistress of a powerful laird and mysterious pirate in this Scottish medieval romance from an award-winning author.Lady Francine Walsingham cannot believe this warrior is to be her escort into Scotland. It is whispered that Lachlan MacRath has magical powers . . . how else do you explain his success as a pirate? But trust him she must, for a treacherous plot is about to reveal all her secrets . . . and Francine has no choice but to act ...

Mariel Brandon has been forced to become a spy for one of England’s most ruthless underground crime lords, but her new assignment is more than she can bear: she must become an assassin. With her brother being used as an incentive to make her compliant, she has no choice but to agree. However, she does not expect her mark to stir such feelings and passion within her. But she can’t afford to give in to those feelings when his death is the only thing that can save her brother?Kieran M...