Christmas at Maple Harbor
(2025)(The seventh book in the Golden Hours Mysteries series)
A Story by Mary Jane Forbes
Christmas at Maple Harbor (Golden Hours Mysteries, Book 7)
Snow blankets Maple Harbor, but Ruby Harlow Spade’s holiday open house takes a chilling turn when her dog Henry digs up a frozen body behind her Victorian home. The stranger is quickly identified as Harold Langford—the long-missing heir to a decades-old family feud over prime lakefront property. His reappearance and sudden death threaten to expose secrets Maple Harbor has buried for generations.
Ruby, newly married to retired FBI agent Sam Spade, refuses to believe Harold’s death was an accident. As blizzards isolate the town, Ruby uncovers clues hidden in her mother’s heirloom music box—a deed that proves the Langford fortune may have been stolen. But someone is determined to silence the truth, and Ruby finds herself the target of increasingly dangerous threats.
With Paige, her ambitious daughter, and Max, Sam’s tech-savvy son, reluctantly joining the chase, sparks of romance kindle beneath the mistletoe even as danger circles closer. As Ruby sets a daring trap to reveal the killer, Maple Harbor gathers to witness a holiday confrontation no one will forget.
Full of suspense, humor, and heart, Christmas at Maple Harbor delivers festive chills, cozy romance, and the reminder that Maple Harbor never stays quiet for long.
Genre: Mystery
Snow blankets Maple Harbor, but Ruby Harlow Spade’s holiday open house takes a chilling turn when her dog Henry digs up a frozen body behind her Victorian home. The stranger is quickly identified as Harold Langford—the long-missing heir to a decades-old family feud over prime lakefront property. His reappearance and sudden death threaten to expose secrets Maple Harbor has buried for generations.
Ruby, newly married to retired FBI agent Sam Spade, refuses to believe Harold’s death was an accident. As blizzards isolate the town, Ruby uncovers clues hidden in her mother’s heirloom music box—a deed that proves the Langford fortune may have been stolen. But someone is determined to silence the truth, and Ruby finds herself the target of increasingly dangerous threats.
With Paige, her ambitious daughter, and Max, Sam’s tech-savvy son, reluctantly joining the chase, sparks of romance kindle beneath the mistletoe even as danger circles closer. As Ruby sets a daring trap to reveal the killer, Maple Harbor gathers to witness a holiday confrontation no one will forget.
Full of suspense, humor, and heart, Christmas at Maple Harbor delivers festive chills, cozy romance, and the reminder that Maple Harbor never stays quiet for long.
Genre: Mystery
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