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She came to Cedar Falls for a fresh start. Instead, she inherited a bakery full of secrets—and a past determined to put her behind bars.Pastry chef Hazel Winthrop knows what it feels like to be accused of something she did not do. Haunted by the murder of her mentor and desperate to rebuild her life, she returns to Cedar Falls after inheriting her late aunt Bea's beloved bakery.The Flaky Crust should be Hazel's second chance.Instead, she discovers t...

The murder was solved. The conspiracy was not.One year after Hazel Winthrop uncovered the truth buried beneath Cedar Falls, she has finally rebuilt her life. The Flaky Crust is thriving, her daughter is home, and the nightmares are beginning to fade.Then a message arrives in the middle of the night.She's gone. They took her. Please help.Nichole Killian has disappeared, and the trail leads Hazel back int...

Hazel Winthrop survived being accused once. This time, someone intends to make the charges stick.Years after exposing the criminal network buried beneath Cedar Falls, Hazel has built the life she fought for. Her bakery is successful. Her daughter is growing up. The people responsible for so much suffering are finally behind bars.Then Hazel's estranged mother dies.And Hazel is arrested.Suddenly, the pastry chef ...

Hazel spent years protecting her daughter from the darkness surrounding their family. Now the darkness has learned her daughter's name.Life in Cedar Falls has finally become quiet.Too quiet.When nine-year-old Bea begins waking from terrifying nightmares and drawing the same mysterious figure again and again, Hazel tries to convince herself that the past is finished.Then Sharon Cross escapes from prison.

Some love stories begin with flowers. This one began with a cold green bottle.Reyanna O'Connor is in her fifties, happily married, the mother of a grown son, and grateful for the ordinary life she has built.But every evening, something happens when the house grows quiet.She walks downstairs.She opens the refrigerator.And there it is.The green bottle.What begins as one woman's playful evening ritual becomes a hilarious...

A continent divided by borders. A diaspora scattered across oceans. A question powerful enough to challenge generations: What would happen if Africa chose to stand together?After anti-migrant violence forces Kweku Badu and his young daughter to leave the life they built in South Africa, their return to Ghana becomes part of a much larger reckoning.Across Africa and throughout the global diaspora, old wounds are reopening. Migration, economic inequality, for...

Every mystery has an ending. Every family has one last secret.Ten years have passed since Hazel Winthrop believed the nightmare surrounding the Killian-Cross family was finally over.She was wrong.Now sixty-two and retired from The Flaky Crust, Hazel receives an elegant invitation to a celebration of justice at the one place she never wanted to enter again: the old grist mill.The invitation is connected to the same post-office box that once h...

The world did not end with a bang.It ended with cancelled plans.When society suddenly begins falling apart, everyone expects panic, chaos, screaming, and desperate crowds.The introverts have been preparing for this their entire lives.They have books.Snacks.Hobbies.Charged devices.And absolutely no desire to attend the emergency neighborhood meeting.As extroverts struggle with a world without parties, offices, networkin...

Elena Rossi came to Muskoka for one reason.Sell the house.The aging lakefront property was left to her by Lucia, the grandmother she never knew—a woman her mother refused to discuss and a family history Elena has spent her entire life without understanding.Then Elena meets Jake Sullivan.Jake knows the house.He knows its history.And he believes selling it would be a mistake.As Elena reluctantly begins restoring the neglected property, ...

I did not choose the couch. The couch chose me.At thirty-seven, she has plans.Learn a language.Go to the gym.Write a novel.Become the sort of person who owns matching storage containers.Unfortunately, her couch has other ideas.One by one, her ambitions disappear into the cushions. The language-learning app is abandoned. The gym membership never meets the gym. The novel slowly transforms into a grocery list.The...

Some love stories begin with flowers. This one began with a cold green bottle.Reyanna O'Connor is in her fifties, happily married, the mother of a grown son, and grateful for the ordinary life she has built.But every evening, something happens when the house grows quiet.She walks downstairs.She opens the refrigerator.And there it is.The green bottle.What begins as one woman's playful evening ritual becomes a hilarious...

No one leaves. No one ages. Something is keeping them alive.Beyond an impossible wall of storms lies an island that should not exist.Ships have vanished near it for generations.People who reach it do not return.When a recovery team follows a mysterious transmission through the storm, they discover a hidden community filled with people who should have been dead for decades—some for centuries.On the island, wounds heal.Bodies d...