She just wanted to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend. Instead she triggered a town-wide crisis, a cross-county chase, and a very heated argument about proper turkey basting technique.
Allie Brannick has one goal for the holiday: cook a real, honest-to-goodness Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend of three months. She has a recipe binder, a rental cottage in the charming Vermont village of Clover Falls, and absolutely no idea what she's doing. What she doesn't have is a working oven, a turkey (mysteriously missing from every shelf in the county), or the faintest clue that the four-dollar vintage gravy boat she just grabbed at the Harvest Swap Meet is a hollowed-out cache holding stolen federal microfilm that three different parties are about to descend on simultaneously.
Seth Calloway is Clover Falls' one-man emergency response apparatus: a former field logistics specialist turned town maintenance supervisor who handles crises methodically, efficiently, and with visible suffering. He meets Allie when she backs her rental car into his truck. By nightfall, her problem is locked inside his cold storage, his twelve charity turkeys are her problem, and the two of them are an accidentally unstoppable team.
He does not like chaos. She IS chaos. The gravy boat is a federal artifact. Dinner is at six.
Over one propulsive, extremely loud forty-eight hours, Allie and Seth face a foot chase through a marching band, a surveillance camera at a parade, a church bell tower, a snowmobile decoy run, one immovable no-returns policy, and a heritage tom turkey named Consequence, while the dinner refuses, at every turn, to be canceled. Because in Clover Falls, the parade proceeds, the town protects its own, and the attempt is the point.
This is a high-speed holiday caper packed with warmth, banter, and zero gore. All the adrenaline, none of the dread, and a Thanksgiving dinner that gets served no matter what happens in Act Three.
Genre: Mystery
Allie Brannick has one goal for the holiday: cook a real, honest-to-goodness Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend of three months. She has a recipe binder, a rental cottage in the charming Vermont village of Clover Falls, and absolutely no idea what she's doing. What she doesn't have is a working oven, a turkey (mysteriously missing from every shelf in the county), or the faintest clue that the four-dollar vintage gravy boat she just grabbed at the Harvest Swap Meet is a hollowed-out cache holding stolen federal microfilm that three different parties are about to descend on simultaneously.
Seth Calloway is Clover Falls' one-man emergency response apparatus: a former field logistics specialist turned town maintenance supervisor who handles crises methodically, efficiently, and with visible suffering. He meets Allie when she backs her rental car into his truck. By nightfall, her problem is locked inside his cold storage, his twelve charity turkeys are her problem, and the two of them are an accidentally unstoppable team.
He does not like chaos. She IS chaos. The gravy boat is a federal artifact. Dinner is at six.
Over one propulsive, extremely loud forty-eight hours, Allie and Seth face a foot chase through a marching band, a surveillance camera at a parade, a church bell tower, a snowmobile decoy run, one immovable no-returns policy, and a heritage tom turkey named Consequence, while the dinner refuses, at every turn, to be canceled. Because in Clover Falls, the parade proceeds, the town protects its own, and the attempt is the point.
This is a high-speed holiday caper packed with warmth, banter, and zero gore. All the adrenaline, none of the dread, and a Thanksgiving dinner that gets served no matter what happens in Act Three.
Genre: Mystery
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