Genealogist Betts Harvey prides herself on spotlighting missing ancestral links and restoring life to dying branches of family trees. When a client asks her to find an heir for a centuries-old book of herbal recipes and seeds, the outcome is a brutal case of lights out in a cold alley. Someone wants the book badly enough to kill for it. Determined to protect the heirloom, Betts works to expose the murderer with the help of Warren, her retired firefighter boyfriend, and Philly, coffee-break buddy and local mud-run champion. Trouble doubles when police suspect Betts. How does a crime novice keep the law at bay and protect herself and her friends from a poisoner, one who has her name at the top of a killer to-do list?
Because of a Cake, a Crow, and a Star is a children’s book about a young girl dwarf, excited to start her apprenticeship in the royal dwarf kitchens. After several mishaps, the head chef bans her from the kitchens and sends her to an old, retired chef to deliver a solstice gift. She gets lost in the forest, but with the help of a star and a crow, the little dwarf finds the chef’s cottage. He gives her an important secret to deliver to the head chef, sends her back to the kitchens, and she is able to redeem herself and help the head chef create the great dwarf solstice cake.
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