The Second Rise: A Gull Harbor Mystery

Sixteen-year-old Wren Callahan wants to save her family's bakery. Becoming the girl whose macaron killed a celebrity judge was not part of the plan.The Second Rise is ninety days from foreclosure, and Gull Harbor's Fall Baking Festival could be Wren's chance to turn things around. The junior division's grand prize is a coveted summer apprenticeship with a stipend. All she has to do is outbake her longtime rival, Leo Marchetti, survive three rounds of judging, and keep her nerves-and her mirror glaze-from falling apart.Then celebrity judge Julian Vance eats one of her raspberry macarons and dies in front of the festival crowd.Her pastries become evidence. Her family's bakery becomes a scandal. And a town that knows everybody suddenly seems full of people with something to hide.With her best friend beside her and Leo becoming an unexpectedly useful-and annoyingly hard-to-ignore-partner, Wren follows a trail of stolen recipes, bitter grudges, and small-town secrets. But accusing the wrong person can do real damage. To clear her name, she needs more than a convincing theory. She needs the truth.The Second Rise is a young adult culinary mystery with witty banter, an autumn seaside setting, a slowly unfolding romance, and a heartfelt story about grief, family loyalty, and second chances.