Elizabeth Penney

Liz Eckardt, owner of the Olde Mansion Inn in Pleasant Creek, Indiana, plans to make a delicious home-cooked feast for her guests. Residents of the small town eagerly await the pumpkin pie bake-off and the national spotlight it will shine on their town when the event is broadcast on a popular TV show. Mary Ann Berne, Liz's good friend and fellow member of the Material Girls quilting group, is expected to win the pie contest, but one of Liz's guests...

"It's Gatsby Week at Castleton Manor, the elegant retreat for booklovers in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, and the roaring twenties are in full swing. Charlotte Jaxon, owner of the manor, arrives to put on the ritz and oversee the festivities celebrating the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Faith Newberry is sitting pretty when she receives a brief respite from her duties in the library to assist Charlotte in organizing the events that have everyone jazzed...

Faith Newberry's dream job may be morphing into a nightmare. Newly hired as the librarian at the upscale and pet-friendly Castleton Manor literary retreat, Faith sees her move from Boston to the quaint Cape Cod village of Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, as a boon. But things turn ugly when she discovers that the first edition book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proudly displayed in the library is a counterfeit, and not a very good one at that. Who could...

"The residents of Somerset Harbor, Maine, are bursting with excitement. Members of a treasure hunting reality TV show have descended on the charming seaside town and promise that what they discover will put it on the map. As the crew dives into one of the town's best known historical disasters, the sinking of the Abigail, Maggie Watson finds herself adrift in a sea of media attention. She is the last living relative of ship captain Thomas Sedgwick,...

"Summer breezes along the Maine coast have blown the Schooner Days Celebration into Somerset Harbor, and Maggie Watson is hoping fair winds and calm seas hold for the festivities. The event is buoying the spirits of everyone in town, especially shy Fran Vosburg, whose friends from teenage sailing camp, now schooner captains, have put down anchor in the bay. But everyone's celebratory mood is given the old heave-ho when ship captain and all-around...

Maggie Watson and her friends are throwing a 1940s themed birthday party for WWII veteran, Dr. William King, with the four-star event doubling as fundraiser for the local homeless. But Ruth Harper drops a bombshell of a long-hidden letter dated March 1943 and written in German. Could her aunt, Lillian Spade, Somerset Harbor's sweetheart, have been secretly harboring the enemy?

Kaylee Bleu is asked to arrange flowers for a Hitchcock-style thriller being filmed on the island. She is soon embroiled in solving the mysterious deaths of the director's former wives, while trying to prevent a young actress from meeting the same fate.

Kaylee Bleu meets her new boyfriend's family for the first time and innkeeper Natalie Parker is dealing with squabbling relatives. Could one of them be who is behind the mishaps Natalie has recently experienced? When one of the relatives turns up dead, Kaylee's search for clues leads her to some of Orcas Island's most desolate areas and danger.

"Hannah Benson is no stranger to loss. Her mother passed away, her brother, Jimmy, was killed in the line of duty, and her father mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Massachusetts. As a result, Hannah and her younger sister, Emma, inherited their family legacy--a struggling lobster business. While Hannah strives to keep the business afloat, the sisters unwittingly become entangled in an illegal smuggling operation and are put under federal protection....

"As the delightful town of Magnolia Harbor, South Carolina, prepares for an upcoming pottery festival, the owners of the Magnolia Harbor Inn--sisters Grace Porter and Charlotte Wylde--welcome their new guests. The Prescott family arrives at the inn to meet the conditions of their grandmother's will. In another unusual twist, the siblings must complete specific tasks in order to receive their inheritance." -- Dust jacket.