Glazed & Suspicious: a Cozy Mystery Romance in Charming Cornwall Bakery with Swoony Detective and Small-Town Secrets: 1

When a dead property developer turns up behind her bakery, Maren Voss discovers she has two problems: a murder to solve and a detective too handsome to hate. Saltwind Cove is the kind of Cornwall village where everyone knows your sourdough order and nobody locks their doors. Maren Voss likes it that way. She pours her whole life into her bakery, Glazed, and she is perfectly fine being the woman who talks to seagulls and burns bridges faster than she burns croissants. So when Rupert Caine, a slick property developer with plans to gut the Cove, ends up dead in her delivery alley on a raw November morning, Maren does what any reasonable woman would do: she decides she already knows who did it and starts poking around before the kettle has even boiled. Detective Sergeant Caden Pryce drives up from Truro with sharp eyes, a quieter mouth than she expects, and the infuriating habit of being right when she is certain she is righter. He makes her feel seen in ways she cannot allow and suspicious in ways she cannot explain. Maren wants him gone. She also cannot stop replaying the moment his hand steadied hers in the cold. But the deeper she digs, the more she realises Rupert Caine had enemies woven into the Cove's oldest families, and someone very much alive wants her to stop asking questions. Late autumn in Cornwall is dark, and Maren is running out of people she has not already alienated. In this book you'll find: - Dual POV chapters alternating between Maren and Caden, so you feel every crossed wire - Enemies-to-lovers slow burn with open-door, on-the-page heat - An amateur sleuth who gets herself out of her own mess, no rescuing required - A full cast of opinionated Cornish villagers you will want to move in next door > Fletch meets The Comfort of Crows with a side of salted caramel. Glazed and Suspicious is Book One of the Saltwind Cove series by Willa Hartwell. Pull on your warmest jumper and come see what the Cove is hiding.