Now Open for Murder

A fresh start. A full house. A body in the Best room.

After twenty years of running other people's hotels, Maggie Calloway is done - burned out, freshly divorced, and ready to walk away for good. Then her grandmother Pearl dies and leaves her the one thing she never wanted: the Foxglove, a crumbling bed-and-breakfast tucked deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Juniper Hollow, North Carolina.

The plan is simple. Fix the old place up, sell it off, and never look back.

But the grand re-opening barely makes it to breakfast before a guest turns up dead. Trouble is, every bit of evidence points straight back at the inn she just reopened.

To save the Foxglove - and the fresh start she didn't know she wanted - Maggie will have to do the one thing she's good at: pay attention. To the gossip at the diner. To the neighbors who smile a little too easily. To all the folks who'd suddenly rather the questions just stopped. Because somewhere behind all that sweet-tea hospitality, one of her neighbors is a killer.

She came to sell a house. She'll have to solve a murder first.

Now Open for Murder is the first book in the Foxglove B&B Mysteries - a cozy Appalachian whodunit with a reluctant sleuth, a lovable hound, a slow-burn romance, and a puzzle that plays fair.

Readers will love:

• A warm, small-town Appalachian setting you'll want to move into
• A smart, big-hearted amateur sleuth starting over at forty-six
• A charming slow-burn with the town's come-home sheriff
• A holler full of gossip, casseroles, and secrets
• Biscuit - a hound of very little help and a very large heart
• Clean and cozy: mild language, no graphic violence, no on-page spice