THE LAST SWEET ROLL

A dead body. A poisoned pastry. And a baker who's the number-one suspect.

Josie Marsh traded a burnout career in the city for her late aunt's cozy bakery on the shores of Loon Lake - cardamom rolls, a hand-painted sign, and a slower, sweeter life. Then the town's wealthiest, sharpest-tongued matriarch drops dead at the Harvest Festival bake-off... one bite into a sweet roll from Josie's own blue-ribbon plate.

The whole town watched it happen. And the whole town knows whose kitchen that roll came from.

With the sheriff under pressure, a coldly ambitious developer circling her lease, and gossip curdling faster than buttermilk, Josie has just days to clear her name. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes the poison wasn't random. Someone knew exactly which roll their victim would choose - someone who knew the dead woman down to the bone. To catch a killer hiding in plain sight, Josie will have to reopen a thirty-year-old secret the whole town buried... and the truth is going to cost somebody everything.

Small town. Big secrets. One very last sweet roll.

THE LAST SWEET ROLL is the first book in the Alder Cove Bakery Mystery series - a warm, twisty, whodunit with a plucky amateur sleuth, a lovable lakeside cast, a heart-tugging finale, and no gore or graphic content. Perfect for readers who love culinary cozies, small-town charm, and a mystery they can't put down.