A Killer Tail
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Macy gives a lusty moan. “I can’t wait to see Alex again.”
“Macy.” I shake my head. “Alex didn’t come out last spring with them.”
She postures my way. “Yes, but Lottie’s boyfriend, Noah, did and Lottie said they were practically twins. So it’s as if I already know him. What comes next is merely a formality.”
“I’m afraid to ask what comes next,” I say as Fish runs up, and I scoop her into my arms. “I guess we’re headed to Honey Hollow.”
You mean I get to visit with Pancake and Waffles? Fish mewls with excitement at the thought of seeing Lottie’s cats before jumping out of my arms and running toward the dogs once again. Sherlock! You’ll never guess where we’re going!
Georgie claps at the sight. “It looks as if someone is excited about seeing her boyfriends.”
“I’m excited, too.” I wrap my arms around Jasper. “Our first real getaway together. Nothing but relaxing, reading, and finding interesting ways to entertain ourselves.”
Macy purrs like a kitten in heat. “I’ll drink to that. Just make sure you don’t stumble across another body. Death does not a dream vacation make.” She takes off for the café. “On second thought, Alex and I will entertain ourselves!”
Georgie leans in. “Don’t listen to her, Bizzy. You stumble over a body any time you like. Just make sure you have a couple of cute suspects to go along with it.” She waves as she and Juni head for the sand.
“I’m not going to find a body,” I say as I secure my hold on Jasper. “Are we good? We’re not still locking horns over that whole investigation debacle, are we?”
A dull laugh rattles in his chest. “We’re more than good. We’re great. You know all I want is your safety and happiness. I’m determined to give you both.”
“You’ve already given me everything I need, and that’s you.”
My lips rise to meet with his and we share a lingering kiss under the warm Cider Cove sun.
Try not to find a body, would you?
“Jasper.” I laugh as I gently smack him on the arm. “You know I have zero control over it.”
“In that case, I’ll bring my gun and my badge.”
“You never leave home without them.” I laugh.
“With you in my life, I never will.” He picks me up and twirls me and lands another lingering kiss to my lips that erases all memory of guns and badges.
Jasper and I are heading off on our first couple’s getaway, and our wedding is within touching distance.
This feels like the beginning of something new.
Like the beginning of who we were meant to be all along.
And I won’t stumble across a body, will I?
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Recipe Country Cottage Café
Bite-size Lemon Tarts
Hey there! It’s me, Bizzy Baker! The Country Cottage Café really knocked it out of the park this time with the most delicious lemon tarts you could ever imagine. Let’s just say they were so good I bribed my best friend Emmie, who happens to be the best baker Cider Cove has ever seen, into making me my own batch—more than once. I can’t wait until you try them. Enjoy!
Ingredients
½ cup butter (softened to room temperature)
¼ cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup sifted flour
2 eggs
4 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
¼ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons of flour
Directions
Preheat oven to 350° (grease mini muffin pan or muffin size if available. An 8x8 pan will work too)
Mix butter and ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar, then stir in flour. Add dough to mini muffin pan until each pan is lined with crust.
Place mini muffin pan in the oven and bake crust for 12 minutes. (Leave crust in muffin tin).
In a large mixing bowl whisk eggs, sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour, add lemon juice, lemon zest, and salt. Combine well.
Spoon mixture into baked pie shells and bake for 20 – 25 minutes.
Cool and sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar.
These will be gone in no time!
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An inn keeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premiere destination for murder.
My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds. Not every mind, not every time, but most of the time, and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Bizzy Baker runs the Country Cottage Inn, has the ability to pry into the darkest recesses of both the human and animal mind, and has just stumbled upon a body. With the help of her kitten, Fish, a mutt named Sherlock Bones, and an ornery yet dangerously good-looking homicide detective, Bizzy is determined to find the killer.
Cider Cove, Maine is the premier destination for fun and relaxation. But when a body turns up, it’s the premier destination for murder.
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Meow for Murder
An Awful Cat-titude
A Dreadful Meow-ment
A Claw-some Affair
Country Cottage Mysteries
Kittyzen’s Arrest (Country Cottage Mysteries 1)
Dog Days of Murder (Country Cottage Mysteries 2)
Santa Claws Calamity (Country Cottage Mysteries 3)
Bow Wow Big House (Country Cottage Mysteries 4)
Murder Bites (Country Cottage Mysteries 5)
Felines and Fatalities (Country Cottage Mysteries 6)
A Killer Tail (Country Cottage Mysteries 7)
Country Cottage Boxed Set 1
Country Cottage Boxed Set 2
Murder in the Mix Mysteries
Cutie Pies and Deadly Lies (Murder in the Mix 1)
Bobbing for Bodies (Murder in the Mix 2)
Pumpkin Spice Sacrifice (Murder in the Mix 3)
Gingerbread & Deadly Dread (Murder in the Mix 4)
Seven-Layer Slayer (Murder in the Mix 5)
; Red Velvet Vengeance (Murder in the Mix 6)
Bloodbaths and Banana Cake (Murder in the Mix 7)
New York Cheesecake Chaos (Murder in the Mix 8)
Lethal Lemon Bars (Murder in the Mix 9)
Macaron Massacre (Murder in the Mix 10)
Wedding Cake Carnage (Murder in the Mix 11)
Donut Disaster (Murder in the Mix 12)
Toxic Apple Turnovers (Murder in the Mix 13)
Killer Cupcakes (Murder in the Mix 14)
Pumpkin Pie Parting (Murder in the Mix 15)
Yule Log Eulogy (Murder in the Mix 16)
Pancake Panic (Murder in the Mix 17)
Sugar Cookie Slaughter (Murder in the Mix 18)
Devil’s Food Cake Doom (Murder in the Mix 19)
Snickerdoodle Secrets (Murder in the Mix 20)
Strawberry Shortcake Sins (Murder in the Mix 21)
Cake Pop Casualties (Murder in the Mix 22)
Flag Cake Felonies (Murder in the Mix 23)
Peach Cobbler Confessions (Murder in the Mix 24)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 4-6)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 7-9)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 10-12)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 13-15)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 16-18)
Murder in the Mix Boxed Set (Books 19-21)
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Little Girl Lost
Never Say Sorry
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Country Kisses (3:AM Kisses 8)
Forbidden Kisses (3:AM Kisses 9)
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Stolen Kisses (3:AM Kisses 11)
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Revenge Kisses (3:AM Kisses 14)
Red Hot Kisses (3:AM Kisses 15)
Reckless Kisses (3:AM Kisses 16)
Hot Honey Kisses (3:AM Kisses 17)
Shameless Kisses (3:AM Kisses 18)
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3:AM Kisses Boxed Set 10-12
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The Social Experiment (The Social Experiment 1)
Bitter Exes (The Social Experiment 2)
Chemical Attraction (The Social Experiment 3)
Low Down & Dirty (3:AM Kisses, Hollow Brook1)
Dirty Disaster (3:AM Kisses, Hollow Brook 2)
Dirty Deeds (3:AM Kisses, Hollow Brook 3)
Naughty By Nature
Heartless (Breakers Canyon Billionaires 1)
Wicked Heart (Breakers Canyon Billionaires 2)
Stone Cold Heart (Breakers Canyon Billionaires 3)
Beautiful Oblivion (Lake Loveless 1)
Beautiful Illusions (Lake Loveless 2)
Beautiful Elixir (Lake Loveless 3)
Beautiful Deception (Lake Loveless 4)
The Solitude of Passion
Someone to Love (Someone to Love 1)
Someone Like You (Someone to Love 2)
Someone For Me (Someone to Love 3)
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Melt With You (A Totally ’80s Romance 1)
Tainted Love (A Totally ’80s Romance 2)
Hold Me Now (A Totally ’80s Romance 3)
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Ethereal (Celestra Series Book 1)
Tremble (Celestra Series Book 2)
Burn (Celestra Series Book 3)
Wicked (Celestra Series Book 4)
Vex (Celestra Series Book 5)
Expel (Celestra Series Book 6)
Toxic Part One (Celestra Series Book 7)
Toxic Part Two (Celestra Series Book 8)
Elysian (Celestra Series Book 9)
Perfect Love (A Celestra Novella)
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Entropy (Ephemeral Academy 3)
Ethereal Knights (Celestra Knights)
Season of the Witch (A Celestra Companion)
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Crown of Ashes (Celestra Forever After 4)
Throne of Fire (Celestra Forever After 5)
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Acknowledgments
Thank YOU, the reader, for joining us on this adventure to Cider Cove. We hope you’re enjoying the Country Cottage Mysteries as much as we are. Don’t miss Cat Scratch Cleaver (Country Cottage Mysteries 8) coming up next. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts for taking this roller coaster ride with us. We cannot wait to take you back to Cider Cove!
Special thank you to the following people for taking care of this book—Kaila Eileen Turingan-Ramos, Kathryn Jacoby, Jodie Tarleton, Margaret Lapointe, Ashley Daniels and Lisa Markson. And a very big shout out to Lou Harper of Cover Affairs for designing the world’s best covers.
A heartfelt thank you to Paige Maroney Smith for being so amazing in every single way.
And last, but never least, thank you to Him who sits on the throne. Worthy is the Lamb! Glory and honor and power are yours. We owe you everything.
About the Authors
Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Previously she worked as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children, and two dogs where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she's not writing, she's reading. Addison’s Celestra Series has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox.
Bellamy Bloom is a USA TODAY bestselling author who writes cozy mysteries filled with humor, intrigue and a touch of the supernatural. When she's not writing up a murderous storm she's snuggled by the fire with her two precious pooches, chewing down her to-be-read pile and drinking copious amounts of coffee.
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