Bad to the Scone

Scottie Ramone is living the life she always dreamed about. She's back in her wonderful hometown of Ripple Creek. Her bakery business is thriving, and she has a wonderful baker's assistant, Jack Lucas. To top it all off, she has a marvelous boyfriend, gothic thriller novelist, Cade Rafferty. Admittedly, there is still a touch of awkward tension between Scottie and her longtime crush, Ranger Dalton Braddock, but they've worked things out ... mostly. The winter snow has melted, spring is in the air and soon a rush of summer tourists will fill the town and gobble up her bakery goodies. When one of the locals, Roberta Schubert, decides to reopen her mother's old teahouse and sell what she calls "traditional scones" she boasts that she might just take a bite out of Scottie's business. Scottie isn't too worried until Roberta sells her scones at a yard sale and people love them. When Roberta is murdered, Scottie starts a list of possible killers and there are plenty. In...