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Four amateur sleuths muck and muddle their way through mysterious disappearances and deaths in the barnyard.

The mysteries enjoyed in books come to life, threatening four businesses. Amber's new bookshop and tearoom draws rare book collectors, but when one ends up dead in the mystery section, the shop's future is questionable. Lilly's pirate themed bookshop fits right into Harbor Inn, Maine, but she never expected to find a young pirate dead on her shop's floor.

A tea shoppe along the coast of Maine is connected to a year's worth of mysterious deaths. Starting one winter day, Georgina finds the mayor poisoned by a plate of petite fours. That spring, Evie's favorite customer and recipe tester is killed. While out delivering scones for her summer job, Ashley discovers a crime scene to practice her student training in forensics. Against a backdrop of vibrant fall foliage, Ladessa discovers a corpse at table number four. How can one small shoppe's employees be connected to so many deaths, and will the business ever recover?

With depression blanketing the nation in 1937, Fern Dempsey employs her creative sewing ability to sustain her family. An opportunity as an air hostess promises to fulfill her personal obligations and satisfy her own hope for a flying career - but at a price. Will Fern’s devotion to her brothers and sisters allow her to follow her personal wishes or confine her to a life of spinsterhood? Gene Lamar’s assignment of breaking rocks for an amphitheater project in a CCC camp fuels his determination to obtain a life of wealth and privilege.

Strong-minded widow Amber Bradford knows exactly what her three grown sons need - wives - and she determines to have her boys married by Christmas. When she announces an impending trip to seek brides for them, the Bradford men know they must derail their mother’s scheme or polish their boots for their weddings. Doc Latham, Amber’s oldest friend, answers the Bradford men’s entreaty to try and dissuade their mother from her idea of December nuptials for them.

Eager to leave the past behind and begin a new life in America, Inga Sorensen journeys from Norway to South Dakota with a packet of love letters and a promise of wedding bells. But when she arrives in Pierre, her dreams of a home and a loving husband are dashed. Instead of the groom she expects, she meets Tom Mitchell. Tom has problems of his own, and he doesn’t need a headstrong woman added to them.

Peyton Anderson, a soldier from the same unit as Martha's papa, pays a visit to the farm on his way to join his family in Texas. He identifies their home by his officer's description of the large magnolia tree in the front yard. Sympathetic to their dismal circumstances, he offers to help the feisty Martha and her gentle mother. Determined to honor his obligations, Peyton fears that even his best efforts may not change the course mapped out for Martha's life or his own.

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 left death and destruction in its wake, but young Elsie Drummond survived. In this volume of the Young Texans Series, we return to 1900, a time without effective hurricane tracking technology or warning systems. Elsie Drummond is celebrating her 11th birthday with friends when the storm approaches. As the hurricane gathers intensity, Elsie's mother escorts the party guests home and instructs the young girl to prepare for the onslaught of the storm.

Joy Young, an attractive, young waitress at the Cozy Cocoa Shoppe, intends to graduate without a penny of debt. She believes working hard and doing the right things will bring the rewards she desires. Her philosophy works until Dane Michaels threatens to take the coveted award she considers to be hers.

Mary Kruger has no choice but to accompany her family to Desolation Point, where mysterious tragedies happen with alarming regularity. In this isolated setting with Lake Superior's waters on three sides and a forest on the other, Mary must overcome her fear of water, wild animals, and the ghosts of Desolation Point. To save herself and her family, she must untangle past mysteries in order to prevent her family from becoming another sad entry in the Desolation Point Lighthouse log book.

Tiny has heard the stories that freedom is coming, but she is tired of waiting. Tiny Mason has nothing of her own. Even her last name belongs to her master. In June of 1865, the Texas slaves hear rumors that the war is over and they will soon be free. Tiny, impatient for freedom, sneaks away from the Mason Plantation in the back of a wagon bound for Galveston. In that port city, on June 19, Major General Granger reads the proclamation announcing the slaves are free.

When the furniture removers empty the family tenement as payment for back rent, 10-year-old Kathleen Flannigan fears that her family will soon be homeless and hungry. Kathleen vows to save her family from ruin, even though her plan means personal sacrifice. Will the orphan train going to Michigan be the answer to Kathleen's vision of a better life for herself and her family?

Violet lies and steals to get on the Orphan Train going to Kansas, where she hopes to make a new start and find a husband. She wants to forget about the fire in the sewing factory that has left her body and mind scarred. However, once she reaches Kansas, and her lies catch up with her, the chances that the handsome Micah will marry her are dashed. With God's forgiveness and her public testimony, Violet begins to find the healing she needs, but will Micah be able to forgive her?

This Young Texan Series audiobook follows the journey of Henry Belkin from his home in Missouri to Tejas in Mexico. Young Henry Belkin's life changes when his father announces they are settling in Stephen F. Austin's new colony. Austin's promise of inexpensive and fertile land in the new settlement comes with a requirement of allegiances to Mexico and the Catholic faith. When the Belkins' journey is beset with difficulties, Henry wonders whether the move to this new land is worth the price.

Birch Tree, Maine, is experiencing a rash of deaths, all mysteriously linked to food trucks that frequent the Birch Point Lake Park. Angel’s new donut truck was doing great, until deathly rumors started. Shanice thought she had customer support when taking over her grandpa’s potato truck, until one started complaining. Marisol’s taco truck is a fixture in the park, until linked to a food judge’s death. Mey’s noodle truck was her ticket to a new life, until her ex-boyfriend threatens to take it away. Could competition between vendors have led to this murder and mayhem?

Elizabeth's dreams of having a loving husband and family have been replaced with the practical realities of spinsterhood, but her secret wishes are renewed when she receives a letter from her sister hinting that she has found the perfect man for Elizabeth: a Texas cowboy.