Cake and Crystals: A Witches of Willow Hollow Mystery
By Kat McGee
Rule number one of catering a wedding: try to keep the best man from ending up face-first in the groom’s cake.
For Harper Dade, that rule goes out the window. Her magic is famously unreliable, and her life just gets messier. One minute she’s juggling buttercream and dodging magical mishaps. The next, the groom (her best friend’s fiancé) is the prime suspect in a murder.
Now Harper has to trade her piping bag for a magnifying glass to find the real killer before the “I do’s” turn into a life sentence for the groom.
Just when things can’t get stickier, her swindler of an ex-husband struts into town with a smug grin and a plan to destroy everything she loves. His presence threatens more than her aunt’s bakery, but the local wizard mechanic throws a wrench in her ex’s plans by pretending to be Harper’s boyfriend.
The suspect list is a who’s who of magical misfits, including a snooty traditionalist witch determined to stop the wedding, a ghost in a fuchsia pantsuit offering cryptic advice, a crooning black cat familiar, and a mysterious vampire who is way too comfortable with all the trouble astir.
With the wedding clock ticking down and a conspiracy that’s more twisted than a piping bag, she is in way over her head. If Harper can’t sift the truth from this confection of lies, her best friend loses her happily-ever-after, and the wedding cake and their beloved town could be ruined for good.
Rule number one of catering a wedding: try to keep the best man from ending up face-first in the groom’s cake.
For Harper Dade, that rule goes out the window. Her magic is famously unreliable, and her life just gets messier. One minute she’s juggling buttercream and dodging magical mishaps. The next, the groom (her best friend’s fiancé) is the prime suspect in a murder.
Now Harper has to trade her piping bag for a magnifying glass to find the real killer before the “I do’s” turn into a life sentence for the groom.
Just when things can’t get stickier, her swindler of an ex-husband struts into town with a smug grin and a plan to destroy everything she loves. His presence threatens more than her aunt’s bakery, but the local wizard mechanic throws a wrench in her ex’s plans by pretending to be Harper’s boyfriend.
The suspect list is a who’s who of magical misfits, including a snooty traditionalist witch determined to stop the wedding, a ghost in a fuchsia pantsuit offering cryptic advice, a crooning black cat familiar, and a mysterious vampire who is way too comfortable with all the trouble astir.
With the wedding clock ticking down and a conspiracy that’s more twisted than a piping bag, she is in way over her head. If Harper can’t sift the truth from this confection of lies, her best friend loses her happily-ever-after, and the wedding cake and their beloved town could be ruined for good.