Mara Kincaid didn’t come back to Maple Haven for a fresh start. She came back because she ran out of exits.
A year ago, she was a rising food-world star with a career, a book deal, and the kind of public attention that feels like love until it turns. One ugly, very public collapse later, she is home again, stuck behind the counter of her family’s diner, feeding the same townspeople who can’t decide whether they want her autograph or her humiliation.
Mara’s plan is simple: keep her head down, flip pancakes, pay off her debts, and get out.
Then a man turns up dead behind the diner.
Worse, Mara argued with him minutes before he died. Worse than that, she is pretty sure she accidentally did something to him while her hands were covered in chocolate and her temper was fraying. Because the family ‘folklore’ she always rolled her eyes at is starting to look a lot like the truth.
Magic is real. It runs in her blood. And it does not care that she wants a normal life.
With the town already primed to make her the villain of the week, Mara has one choice if she wants to keep her job, her freedom, and what little reputation she has left: find the real killer before Maple Haven decides she is the easiest answer.
Unfortunately, solving a murder means asking questions people don’t want asked, poking into a quiet little circle of sin the town pretends doesn’t exist, and working far too closely with Deputy Cal Rowan, the one man who knows exactly how she fell apart… and exactly how to get under her skin.
In Maple Haven, everyone is hungry. Some for dessert. Some for gossip. And some for silence.
Guilty as Ganache is the first book in The Griddlewitch Mysteries, a first-person culinary cozy series packed with small-town drama, sharp humor, light witchy elements, and a slow-burn romance threaded through a murder that hits way too close to home.
Genre: Mystery
A year ago, she was a rising food-world star with a career, a book deal, and the kind of public attention that feels like love until it turns. One ugly, very public collapse later, she is home again, stuck behind the counter of her family’s diner, feeding the same townspeople who can’t decide whether they want her autograph or her humiliation.
Mara’s plan is simple: keep her head down, flip pancakes, pay off her debts, and get out.
Then a man turns up dead behind the diner.
Worse, Mara argued with him minutes before he died. Worse than that, she is pretty sure she accidentally did something to him while her hands were covered in chocolate and her temper was fraying. Because the family ‘folklore’ she always rolled her eyes at is starting to look a lot like the truth.
Magic is real. It runs in her blood. And it does not care that she wants a normal life.
With the town already primed to make her the villain of the week, Mara has one choice if she wants to keep her job, her freedom, and what little reputation she has left: find the real killer before Maple Haven decides she is the easiest answer.
Unfortunately, solving a murder means asking questions people don’t want asked, poking into a quiet little circle of sin the town pretends doesn’t exist, and working far too closely with Deputy Cal Rowan, the one man who knows exactly how she fell apart… and exactly how to get under her skin.
In Maple Haven, everyone is hungry. Some for dessert. Some for gossip. And some for silence.
Guilty as Ganache is the first book in The Griddlewitch Mysteries, a first-person culinary cozy series packed with small-town drama, sharp humor, light witchy elements, and a slow-burn romance threaded through a murder that hits way too close to home.
Genre: Mystery
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