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Some long-dead secrets are best kept buried. It was meant to be just a small remodeling project to Amanda's historic bed and breakfast, like so many she'd done before. This time, though, she hadn't counted that a mysterious discovery could lead to her small Oregon beach town buzzing with gossip and innuendo, and someone just in the shadows who will stop at almost nothing to keep the past as silent as the grave.

A riddle for you: What waits for no man? It turns out that time and tide wait for no woman, too! Just when Amanda Graham's life has started to turn around, trouble comes to the quiet beach town of Ravenwood Cove in the guise of a mysterious stranger and ghosts from her past. When paths cross with murder and long-held secrets, it's only a matter of time before someone is going to have to pay for mistakes made long ago.

A dead car, a vacation to the Pacific Northwest that’s really all about running away, and a bad guy facedown on the steps to her rented cottage make Claire crave home more than chocolate cake and great home cooking. With only her beloved doggy as a companion, even the promise of hopping a ferry for the beautiful San Juan Islands seems like an impossibility when everyone is trying to point fingers at each other. Right in the middle of it all, Claire has to convince the tight-knit town she’s not the murderer, even if the clues tell another horrible story.

It’s tough enough to try to make a living in Ravenwood Cove, but when a fancy new tea shop shows up and starts to compete with the existing shops in town, its abrasive owner definitely isn’t making any friends. The first annual Spring Fun Run is on everybody’s minds, but a grisly discovery puts some of the most respected people in Ravenwood high on the suspect list, and square in the path of deadly danger.

Christmas in Ravenwood Cove should’ve been the happiest of times for newlyweds Amanda and James, but when a unknown killer puts a target on James' back their cozy life together could fall apart. As suspicion turns toward one of the most trusted people in Ravenwood Cove, Amanda learns the real meaning of family as she goes on the hunt for the truth.

Jennifer was happy working as a baker at the Ravenwood Inn, but when fate comes calling in the form of Gable Landon, she’s ready to jump at the new career he offers. Soon she’s globetrotting from Oregon to Bruges, then on to Provence to assess a rundown property her boss might want to buy. The charm of southern France and its food and landscape is almost intoxicating, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s made a new friend, a French bulldog named Orly. What Jennifer hadn’t expected, though, was stone cold murder.