When Clara Whitfield finds Dean Harlow dead in the walk-in cooler of her bakery, the last thing on her mind is the triple-chocolate cake she had been perfecting for Thistlewood Bay’s summer festival.
The ruthless developer had been threatening to buy up Main Street, and now Clara’s own cake stand is the murder weapon, putting her shop, her freedom, and her family’s legacy in jeopardy.
Forced to look closer, she finds motives everywhere—desperate business owners, bitter rivals, secret deals, and powerful people with something to hide—yet the killing may have nothing to do with the bakery at all.
Then Clove, her crooked-eared tabby, paws at a locked drawer and turns up a clue that leads Clara through hidden payments, missing documents, and dangerous small-town secrets.
She has to uncover the truth before the killer takes the one thing she refuses to surrender.
