Cabin Fever
(2026)(The second book in the S'more Than Meets the Eye Mystery series)
A Story by Rachel Darrishaw
The best thing in the Trading Post at Camp Do-Over isn't for sale. It's the Vintage Wall — forty years of framed photographs from the old Camp Firefly that stood on these same grounds, kids in canoes and color war and life jackets, squinting into forty summers of the same sun. Maddie "Sunny" Byrne is on that wall herself, third row up, a gap-toothed nine-year-old holding a fish barely bigger than the hook, and she dusts that frame with a small private feeling every single time. So when seven Firefly alumni arrive for a fortieth-anniversary reunion — bunking in the same cabin they slept in as teenagers, singing the same song, digging up the time capsule they buried before they scattered — it's the warmest week the camp has ever had.
Until one of them dies, and a single photograph goes missing off the wall. It isn't a valuable picture. It's a blurry group shot of skinny kids at the archery range that nobody has looked twice at in four decades. Everybody in that cabin has a motive and not one of them has an alibi, which means Sunny's usual method is useless from the first morning. So she flips the question: not who hated him, but why that photo — because whoever took it wasn't stealing a keepsake. They were erasing something. With Roz feeding her theories over cobbler, Otis grunting whole paragraphs at the fire ring, and a dog who is right more often than anyone gives him credit for, Sunny has until the Sunday shuttle to figure out who's frightened of a forty-year-old summer afternoon.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Until one of them dies, and a single photograph goes missing off the wall. It isn't a valuable picture. It's a blurry group shot of skinny kids at the archery range that nobody has looked twice at in four decades. Everybody in that cabin has a motive and not one of them has an alibi, which means Sunny's usual method is useless from the first morning. So she flips the question: not who hated him, but why that photo — because whoever took it wasn't stealing a keepsake. They were erasing something. With Roz feeding her theories over cobbler, Otis grunting whole paragraphs at the fire ring, and a dog who is right more often than anyone gives him credit for, Sunny has until the Sunday shuttle to figure out who's frightened of a forty-year-old summer afternoon.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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