The Wedding Cake Conspiracy
(2026)(The fourth book in the Sparrow Creek Mystery series)
A novel by Cynthia Rowan
Spring has finally arrived in Sparrow Creek, and Vera Holloway is up to her elbows in buttercream. The town's most anticipated wedding of the decade is just weeks away, and Vera has been commissioned to create the cake—a towering confection meant to symbolize new beginnings for a family haunted by tragedy.
Thirty years ago, a groom died at his wedding reception. Anaphylactic shock. A baker was blamed, a business was destroyed, and the bride was left in her white dress, a widow before she was ever a wife.
Now that bride's granddaughter is getting married—at the same venue, in the same garden, surrounded by the same old Sparrow Creek families. It's supposed to be a moment of healing. A fresh start.
But when threatening notes begin appearing in Vera's kitchen—History has a way of repeating—and the bridal bouquet arrives filled with the exact lilies from that long-ago catastrophe, Vera realizes someone isn't interested in closure. Someone wants an encore.
With the help of a thirty-year-old case file, a skeptical detective boyfriend, and one extremely judgmental cat, Vera must unmask a killer who's been hiding in plain sight—before this wedding ends the same way the last one did.
Some family recipes should stay buried.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Thirty years ago, a groom died at his wedding reception. Anaphylactic shock. A baker was blamed, a business was destroyed, and the bride was left in her white dress, a widow before she was ever a wife.
Now that bride's granddaughter is getting married—at the same venue, in the same garden, surrounded by the same old Sparrow Creek families. It's supposed to be a moment of healing. A fresh start.
But when threatening notes begin appearing in Vera's kitchen—History has a way of repeating—and the bridal bouquet arrives filled with the exact lilies from that long-ago catastrophe, Vera realizes someone isn't interested in closure. Someone wants an encore.
With the help of a thirty-year-old case file, a skeptical detective boyfriend, and one extremely judgmental cat, Vera must unmask a killer who's been hiding in plain sight—before this wedding ends the same way the last one did.
Some family recipes should stay buried.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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