A Pinch of Trouble: Some recipes ask for more than flour.: 2

The recipe box is home safe. So why won't it close the case? Zoey and her cousins earned their quiet: the box is back under the cake stand, Grandma's home, and Saturday baking lessons are the new normal. Then a strange old card turns up - older paper, faded ink, handwriting nobody knows - and its ingredient list ends with a line that isn't food at all: one true secret, freely told. Even stranger: someone in town has started baking. Casseroles that taste like a kitchen nobody can name. Cocoa that makes a whole snow day homesick. A science-fair volcano that erupts warm gingerbread. Whoever it is doesn't know the rules - and every batch comes out almost right, which Grandma says is the saddest flavor there is. Kyle has a real case at last. Bree's bakery order pad might be the best clue in it. Aliyah is keeping a secret that has nothing to do with magic and everything to do with the new kid who eats lunch alone. And Strawberry the cat has invented a brand-new signal none of them can translate... A warm, funny, clue-packed mystery about lost recipes, new friends, and the one ingredient you can't borrow, buy, or trade. Perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Nevermoor, and Because of Winn-Dixie. Book 2 of the Recipe Box Mysteries - a complete story, no cliffhangers, no nightmares. New readers can start here; returning readers get every callback.