“I’m your sister.” The woman shakes Noah off of her. “I’m one year younger. I go by Charlie.” She looks up at Noah and snarls, “Take these cuffs off me, or you’ll live to regret it.”

  Noah glances my way and I nod for him to do it, but he hesitates.

  “She could be dangerous, Lemon,” Everett says. “I didn’t want to worry you, but she was about to step into your room the night you gave birth. I caught her just as I was coming back to the room.”

  Charlie twitches her nose his way. “The night you paid Manny ten grand to watch after your little brood?” She looks over at me. “Did you know that, Lottie? Your husband was paying a mobster to stop another mobster from killing him. Or was that a secret, Essex?”

  Everett lifts his hands as if he wanted nothing to do with it. “That Essex thing never happened, Lemon.”

  “Oh, relax,” she bites the words out. “Mommy Dearest told me all about your dirty nickname.” She squints over at me. “She told me all about everything as if she were recapping her favorite TV show.” She nods to my mother, her face still knotted up in anger. “You must be Miranda. My would-be mother.” Her lips tug down as she inspects my sisters. “And you’re Lainey,” she says. “I can tell because you look like Lottie, just the way my mother described.” She grunts over at Meg, and Meg grunts right back. “And you’re the reason I’m not a Lemon.”

  “That’s right,” Carlotta says. “Now that the Charlie cat is out of the bag, you may as well know the rest of it. I came back to Honey Hollow to check on my Lot Lot and got myself knocked up all over again. I went back to Arizona, but I knew I couldn’t keep Charlie, so when the time came and I gave birth, I drove back with the intention of leaving her on the floor of the Honey Hollow Fire Department just like I did the first time. But I heard Joe talking to his buddies about how Miranda just had a newborn of her own. I couldn’t do that to you, Miranda. So I packed up Charlie, went back to Arizona, and raised Cha Cha, myself, the best I knew how.”

  Charlie’s chest bounces. “She didn’t know how,” she spits the words out with a certain cruelty as she looks to Carlotta. “And then when Carlotta decided the time was right, she left me in Arizona.” I have a feeling she’s far more comfortable calling the woman who bore us Carlotta than she is Mom. “She took off in the night, leaving nothing but a note on her pillow. Oh, of course, she called. She gave a detailed account of life in fabled Honey Hollow, but she made it explicitly clear I wasn’t to come here. That I wasn’t welcome.”

  “I never said that!” Carlotta wails. “I said, ‘Don’t you show your face in this town. Nobody wants to see it.’”

  “Oh, honey.” Mom reaches her hand out to the girl. “I would have happily raised you as one of my own. Why, you and Lottie are practically twins.”

  “Carlotta, I can’t believe you.” I shake my head at her. “Charlie, you’re welcome here.” I shake my head again as if maybe she wasn’t. “Why were you stalking me? What were you going to do when you were about to walk into my room that night?”

  Her chin lifts a notch. “I was watching you because I wanted to see you for myself. I couldn’t just come out and say I’m your sister. I didn’t know if I was going to stay.” She rattles her arms to Noah and he quickly uncuffs her. “That night at the hospital—” Her lips invert and she quickly blinks away tears. “I just wanted to open the door, to see you, see your baby. Everything looks so perfect in your life. And everything went so wrong in mine.” She glowers over at Carlotta. “And it’s all your fault, woman. And I’ll make sure you pay. Don’t worry, Lottie. I’m not a threat to you or your family. But I’m not leaving Honey Hollow anytime soon.” She’s right back to glaring at Carlotta. “I have some unfinished business with our mother that I have to tend to. Someone left me holding the bag back home. And now I’m going to make sure she gets what’s hers.”

  A moaning sound comes from Carlotta.

  “Now”—Charlie looks from my sisters to me—“all I have to do is find someplace to stay in this one-horse town. Let’s just say my new boyfriend and I don’t quite see eye to eye anymore. I’ll see you all around. You might wish you can get rid of me, but I’m not going anywhere.” She takes off toward the parking lot and Mom starts to take off after her but not before Everett plucks the baby from her arms.

  “Wait!” Mom calls out. “I own half a B&B! You can stay with me, Charlie. If you’re my Lottie’s sister, that makes you my daughter, too!”

  Mom manages to stop her and it looks as if they’re striking a deal.

  Why do I get the feeling my mother is striking a deal with the devil? The devil in my own skin it seems.

  Carlotta pivots on her heels. “I’ve gotta find Harry. It looks like there’s one more paternity test he’s gotta take.”

  I catch her by the arm. “What did she mean by you left her holding the bag?”

  Carlotta clams up as dark clouds roll in overhead as if a hurricane were on its way, and I have the feeling one just arrived.

  “Carlotta? What did you do to her?” I demand.

  Carlotta looks in the girl’s direction and her features harden.

  A jag of lightning goes off overhead and a gust of wind comes out of nowhere.

  Carlotta shakes her head. “Let’s just say she’s not so innocent herself. We’ve got trouble, Lot Lot. She’s worse than any curse, hex, pox, or broken mirror combined. The quicker we get rid of her, the better off we’ll all be.”

  She takes off and her words echo through my mind.

  Lainey and Meg stare over at the girl with me, right along with Noah and Everett.

  Trouble has come to Honey Hollow and her name is Carlotta Sawyer.

  Go figure.

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  Recipe

  From the kitchen of the Cutie Pie Bakery and Cakery

  Lottie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

  Hey ho! It’s me, Lottie Lemon, and I cannot wait to share my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! Everyone who visits the bakery just raves about them but I think it’s no secret that Detective Noah Fox is particularly addicted to these delicious confections. I make sure to whip up a batch whenever I need to get on his good side. I can’t wait for you to take a bite! And if you decide to share these, you’ll be on everybody’s good side.

  Ingredients

  3 cups All-Purpose Flour

  1 cup butter (softened)

  1 cup sugar

  1 cup brown sugar (packed down with love)

  2 eggs

  2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

  1/4 cup maple syrup (my secret ingredient!)

  2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  1 teaspoon baking soda

  2 teaspoons hot water

  ½ teaspoon salt

  Directions

  Preheat oven to 350°

  In large mixing bowl (preferably in a stand mixer) cream butter, white, and brown sugar until smooth and silky. Add in eggs and beat into mixture. Add maple syrup, vanilla.

  In a small bowl add hot water and add baking soda until well dissolved.

  Add baking soda mixture to batter and add salt.

  Add flour and chocolate chips to the mixture and stir well.

  Spoon walnut size dollops of batter onto a cookie sheet. (No need to grease the cookie sheet!)

  Bake for approximately 10 minutes.

  Enjoy!

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  Paranormal Women’s Fiction

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  Cozy Mysteries

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  Cutie Pies and Deadly Lies

  Bobbing for Bodies

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  Gingerbread & Deadly Dread

  Seven-Layer Slayer

  Red Velvet Vengeance

  Bloodbaths and Banana Cake

  New York Cheesecake Chaos

  Lethal Lemon Bars

  Macaron Massacre

  Wedding Cake Carnage

  Donut Disaster

  Toxic Apple Turnovers

  Killer Cupcakes

  Pumpkin Pie Parting

  Yule Log Eulogy

  Pancake Panic

  Sugar Cookie Slaughter

  Devil’s Food Cake Doom

  Snickerdoodle Secrets

  Strawberry Shortcake Sins

  Cake Pop Casualties

  Flag Cake Felonies

  Peach Cobbler Confessions

  Poison Apple Crisp

  Spooky Spice Cake Curse

  Pecan Pie Predicament

  Eggnog Trifle Trouble

  Waffles at the Wake

  Raspberry Tart Terror

  Baby Bundt Cake Confusion

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  Wicked Whoopie Pies

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  Red, White, and Blueberry Muffin Murder

  Christmas Fudge Fatality

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  Escape to Breakers Beach

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  Beautiful Elixir

  Beautiful Deception

  A Good Year for Heartbreak

  Someone to Love

  Someone to Love

  Someone Like You

  Someone For Me

  A Totally ‘80s Romance Series

  Melt With You (A Totally ’80s Romance 1)

  Tainted Love (A Totally ’80s Romance 2)

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  Tremble

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  Season of the Witch (A Celestra Companion)

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  The Dragon and the Rose

  The Serpentine Butterfly

  Crown of Ashes

  Throne of Fire

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  Roar of the Lion

  Acknowledgments

  Big thanks to YOU the reader! I hope you had a wonderful time. I can’t thank you enough for spending time in Honey Hollow with me. I hope you enjoyed this bumpy ride with Lottie and all of her Honey Hollow peeps as much as I did. The MURDER IN THE MIX mysteries are super special to me, and I hope they are to you as well. If you’d like to be in the know on upcoming releases, please be sure to follow me at Bookbub and Amazon, and sign up for my newsletter.

  I am SUPER excited to share the next book with you! So much happens and so much changes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this wild roller coaster ride with me. I really do love you!

  A very big thank you to Kaila Eileen Turingan-Ramos, and Jodie Tarleton for being awesome.

  A special thank you to my sweet betas, Lisa Markson, Ashley Marie Daniels, Amy Barber, Stacie Bucholtz, and Margaret Lapointe for looking after the book with their amazing beautiful eyes. And a shout out to Lou Harper for designing the world’s most beautiful cover.

  A mighty BIG thank you to Paige Maroney Smith for being so amazing.

  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. I owe you everything, Jesus.