When Wayfarers Inn employee Winnie wins a baking competition, the Inn Crowd capitalizes on it by offering a free loaf of her award-winning bread to the first twelve guests to book a room at the inn. But when strange messages begin showing up inside the loaves of bread, the friends must figure out who would want to harm them or Winnie. Meanwhile, a demanding guest named Reena Newberry begins to wear on the Inn Crowd. Finding out what she wants from...

Janice is thrilled when she hears that her childhood friend is coming to Marietta for a surveyors conference. Her excitement turns to intrigue when she learns that he is in possession of an antique compass reported to have belonged to George Washington. But when Anthony arrives with plans to present the compass to the historical society, another conference attendee accuses him of stealing it from her father over forty years earlier. Then the stakes...

Eve Harmon has always enjoyed Christmas, but this year it reminds her of everything she doesn't have. Almost all her friends are married now, and that's what Eve wants, too. Love. A husband and kids of her own. But the B and B she manages, and even Whiskey Creek, the small Gold Country town where she was born and raised, suddenly seem confining. Eve's worried that her future will simply be a reflection of her past. There's no one in the area she could...

When a framed print of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin goes missing from Wayfarers Inn, LuAnn, Tess, and Janice are puzzled -- but when a first edition copy of the book is stolen from the Underground Railroad Museum the next day, they are alarmed. With two historic art dealers, a rare book collector, and a Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum employee (who is helping plan an event at the museum from the 170th anniversary of the book) all staying in town, the...

Spring has sprung at Wayfarers Inn, and Tess, LuAnn, and Janice are excited to host an Easter egg hunt extravaganza. Local businesses have chipped in, providing eggs loaded with all kinds of candy and prizes--coupons for services, free goodies, and even cash. Then there is the grand prize: a golden egg stuffed with three hundred dollars. But when the golden egg is found, it's empty! Tess is baffled--she knows the egg was filled with money when the...

Former English professor Cat Latimer is back in Colorado, hosting writers' retreats in the big blue Victorian she's inherited, much to her surprise, from none other than her carousing ex-husband! Now it's an authors' getaway--but Cat won't let anyone get away with murder... The bed-and-breakfast is open for business, and bestselling author Tom Cook is among its first guests. Cat doesn't know why he came all the way from New York, but she's glad to...

Gossip runs rampant in the quaint town of Cedar Cove when a Vietnam veteran dies in Peggy Beldon's Bed and Breakfast, Jon Bowman and Maryellen Sherman prepare to get married, and several older widows find love and a little bit of scandal.