Mischief in Moonstone Series
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Book 1: When Rudolph was Kidnapped
Someone has kidnapped Rudolph. Not the legend: a real caribou, the most beloved animal in Moonstone, Wisconsin, gone from the live Nativity two weeks before Christmas, leaving thirteen heartbroken first-graders demanding answers. Their teacher, Crystal Hagan, follows the boot tracks across the snow to the mansion everyone calls the North Pole, where a recluse who once played Santa has just been joined by his estranged son. Peter LeBarron admits everything, refuses to hand the reindeer back, and names a ransom that has nothing to do with money. Crystal fights the way only Crystal can: a warm chocolate pudding cake at his door, a donkey delivered into his front hall, wanted fliers all over town. It becomes the strangest negotiation of her life, and the most dangerous thing inside that house is not the ransom.
Book 2: Misbehavin' in Moonstone
The men of Moonstone have gone fishing. All of them, every day, on a floating topless fishing show anchored just offshore, and the town's marriages and businesses are sinking with it. The women's solution is Kirsten Peplinski: twenty-five, newly and accidentally the interim mayor, owner of a failing restaurant, and the last person who wants a fight. Then she meets the boat's owner. Jonathon VanBrocklin is tall as the moon, maddeningly charming, and armed with a Tiffany ring and an outrageous offer: marry him and the boat disappears. Kirsten has secrets that make marriage impossible and a town full of women counting on her. Her counterattack involves every bikini in town. His involves twelve moonstone necklaces and a chef whose apricot-stuffed trout tastes like destiny. Moonstone is about to find out who blinks first.
Book 3: Mrs. Claus and the Moonstone Murder
Two days into her job as Moonstone's new deputy, Lily Schuster arrests a shirtless paleontologist for digging prehistoric beaver bones out of a lavender chicken pen. It is the most normal thing that will happen to her all week. Because eighty-four-year-old Henri LeBarron, the town's beloved Santa, has two women brawling over which of them gets to be Mrs. Claus, and his solution is a pie contest. Then the most feared food critic in the Twin Cities takes her third bite of banana cream pie at the judging table and never takes another. Now Lily has a murder case, a town full of suspects who are all hiding something, and a maddening professor who keeps turning up everywhere, including her bathtub. She came to Moonstone to stay out of the spotlight. Too late.
Book 4: When the Dead People Brought a Dish-to-Pass
The car crash at the bottom of her hill leaves a man upside down in the wreck, bloody and still. By the time Alyssa Swain returns with help, he is gone. Hours later he knocks on her door, spotless, carrying a toolbox. John Christopherson walks through locked doors, fixes her floors, and speaks about the daughter Alyssa lost four years ago as though her story is not finished yet. He says her dead relatives are coming for a Halloween dish-to-pass party, hauling food from their own centuries, and midnight on Halloween is his deadline. Alyssa stopped believing in most things the day her daughter died. But the dead keep arriving, the farmhouse keeps filling with a warmth she never planned on, and the man rebuilding it may soon vanish for good. She has three days to learn how to hold on to a man she has never actually touched.
Book 5: A Moonstone Wedding
Margie Mueller is days from marrying Tony Farina, the chef who calls her his Sophia Loren, and she has never been more terrified. His enormous Italian family is descending on her tiny Lake Superior town, his mother is quietly perfecting every wedding detail Margie ever chose, and a mysterious red rug has arrived from Italy carrying a hint too embarrassing to say out loud. Then a priceless glass collection vanishes from the borrowed mansion, ransom notes start demanding fifty thousand dollars, and Margie makes one panicked choice she cannot take back. Now she is hiding the biggest secret of her life from the man she loves, her girlfriends are helping in all the wrong ways, and the quiet woman everyone underestimates has one week to find the truth, save her wedding, and finally learn to speak up.
Book 6: The Moonstone Fire
Someone burned a cabin on the edge of Moonstone with John "Bozeman" Hall's best friend and his wife asleep inside. Three days later, Bozeman is on his knees in the cold ashes, reading the fire the way only a Montana rancher and volunteer firefighter can, hunting whoever wanted a beloved schoolteacher dead. What he finds instead, camped in a cave in the snowbound woods, is a woman with a rifle, a coughing little boy, and a stolen red silkie chicken. She says her name is Dolly. She says she had nothing to do with the fire. The tread of her shoe says otherwise. A war took Bozeman's leg, his steady hands, and a boy he could not save. Finding an arsonist is the easy part. The hard part is what to do when every clue points at the first person in years he wants to believe.
Book 7: All She Wore Was a Bow
Champion bull rider Kincaid Hunter has one plan for tiny, snowbound Moonstone: rescue his best friend from a Christmastime wedding and be back under the Vegas lights by Sunday. The wedding planner has other plans. Gloria Gibson runs Moonstone's Christmas like a general, wears a blinking Rudolph in her hair, and is building a replica of the entire town in gingerbread. Before Kade can say a word, he is out of his boots, into green elf slippers, and stirring cocoa for a room full of first-graders. Eight seconds is his limit on a bull; Gloria plans in twelve-day campaigns. Somewhere between a stolen gingerbread mansion and a sleigh ride that briefly leaves the ground, the cowboy who hates Christmas starts forgetting why he came. And the secret he flew in with could stop the wedding for good.