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In a town that runs on magic, someone has turned it into a murder weapon.Fifty-six, widowed, and not nearly as retired as she'd like, Renee never planned to move back to Hemlock Hollow, Vermont. But her aging mother needs help running the family's magical general store — and after decades in...

Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular caf in Devils Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the gardens owner, Darla. Darlas list of rules is long, but...

Solving murders, smooching criminology professors, and just the right amount of alligators combine in Swamp Princess, the cozy mystery + rom-com follow up to Gator Queen! Maggie Andrews is swamped—literally—as she tries to balance running her family's gator trapping business, "defining the...

Maggie Andrews catches alligators for a living, sells romance novels with her twin sister, and has approximately zero interest in dead bodies. So when she rolls up to a routine gator call and finds her biggest rival face-down in the mud with a bullet in his head, she does what any reasonable...

Laid-off journalist Lana Lewis is thriving as the proprietor of Perkatory, a coffee shop on quirky Devil’s Beach Island, Florida. She’s juggling a relationship with police chief Noah Garcia, enjoying the company of her best friend, Erica, and relishing the companionship of her golden Shih Tzu, Stanley. The only problem is her neighbor, Gus, who incessantly uses his leaf blower, disturbing everyone in the neighborhood. Lana has learned to tune it out, but Erica’s rage boils over, and she confronts Gus. Then Gus is found dead, and Erica immediately becomes suspect number one.

After being humiliated in front of her entire hometown of Moose Knuckle, New Hampshire, Hadley Mortimer heads south to lick her wounds—all the way to the island of Devil's Beach, Florida, where she's opened her first business, Give Me Chills, an artisan ice-cream truck. After a couple of weeks, she's living the cream and has even met a gorgeous guy named Zander, who seems to appreciate more than her soft-serve cones. When Zander asks her to bring an ice-cream cake to his great-aunt's funeral, Hadley overhears two people talking about murder. 

It's a steamy September, and business is brisk at Perkatory, the hottest coffee shop in Devil's Beach, Florida. Much of the clientele pours in from Dante's Inferno, the hot yoga studio next door. But the bright, sunny Gulf Coast days turn decidedly dark roast when the body of the studio's owner turns up in a nearby swamp.  

When Lana Lewis' best - and most difficult - employee abruptly quits and goes to work for the competition just days before the Sunshine State Barista Championship, her café's chances of winning the contest are creamed. In front of a gossipy crowd in the small Florida town of Devil's Beach, Lana's normally calm demeanor heats to a boil when she runs into the arrogant java slinger. Of course, Fabrizio Fab Bellucci has a slick explanation for jumping ship. But when he's found dead the next morning under a palm tree in the alley behind Lana's café, she becomes the prime suspect.