All Olivia Faulkner wanted when she left Chicago and returned to her childhood home in Grand Arbor was a fresh start and a safer life for her daughter, Vi.

But when a professor is murdered with a poisoned maple bacon pastry from her family cafe, Olivia Faulkner must dive deep into a murder investigation and solve the mystery.

With the help of her daughter, an old flame, and the nosy old ladies who stitch and gossip at the cafe, can she catch the real killer before gossip spreads through tiny Grand Arbor and her business is ruined?