Fondant Fumble

Informationen zum Autor Jenn McKinlay is the award-winning New York Times , USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of several mystery and romance series. Her work has been translated into multiple languages in countries all over the world. She lives in sunny Arizona in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband's guitars. Klappentext Professional football players Keogh Graham and Tyler Matthews want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise. They're spending the off-season in Scottsdale working in Mel's bakery, learning about the business and how to bake show-stopping cupcakes. The popular athletes bring a boom of customers to the store as football fans flock to see the friends mixing batter and piping icing. Everyone's excited the athletes are pursuing their dream of owning a bakery-except for those who fear the players will ditch football for fondant and retire early from professional sports. The angry naysayers include their team owner and Keogh's sports agent, along with some very vocal fans. When the owner of their team, the Arizona Scorpions, is found dead on the floor of their new bakery following an argument with Keogh, the pros become prime suspects. As the investigation heats up, Mel and the rest of the cupcake bakery crew must step up and prove their franchise owners are innocent before it's game-over for the new bakers. Leseprobe One "Tyler Matthews and Keogh Graham are buying a franchise," Tate Harper, the financial wizard behind the bakery Fairy Tale Cupcakes, announced at the weekly staff meeting. Melanie DeLaura and Angie Harper exchanged an amused glance and burst out laughing. The three of them had been best friends since middle school. When Mel had quit a high-stress marketing job to become a professional cupcake baker, both Angie and Tate had joined her. Now Angie and Tate were married with an adorable daughter, Emari, while Mel had married her childhood crush, Joe DeLaura, who also happened to be the middle of Angie's seven older brothers. "Oh, honey, that's hilarious," Angie said. She reached up to tighten the messy bun she'd twisted her long dark hair into as her laughter had shaken it loose. "I'm not joking," Tate said. "Right, because the two best players on the Arizona Scorpions NFL team are suddenly going to become cupcake bakers?" Mel asked. She rolled her eyes then studied the plate of cupcakes on the table between them. It was ten o'clock in the morning, and while she never let the time of day dictate her cupcake consumption, she did wonder if it was too early to have one right now. She glanced at the flavors and decided on a strawberry cupcake, which, loaded with chunks of real strawberry, had a very high fruit-to-cake ratio. So it was more of a fruit salad than a cake, really, and that was healthy. Right? Right. She reached for one of the pink confections, feeling very virtuous. "I'm not kidding. I have the paperwork right here," Tate insisted. He gestured to the stack of papers beside him. The three of them were seated in the front of the bakery in one of the booths beside the large picture window that looked out onto the street. The bakery's pink interior with black accents embraced the 1950s heyday of Old Town Scottsdale, the neighborhood where they'd all grown up and subsequently opened their first bakery. The shop hadn't yet opened for the day, and every Monday morning they took advantage of the quiet to go over the business particulars. Tate was in charge of the finances and the franchises, Melanie was the executive chef in charge of creating their cupcake flavors, and Angie was Mel's assistant, keeping the flagship bakery in Scottsdale leading the way for all of their franchises. "You're just teasing me because you know Keogh Graham is my NFL husband," Mel said. "Not nice." Tate shoved a hand through his wavy light brown...

Product details

• Authors: Jenn McKinlay
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2024
• EAN: 9780593549148
• ISBN: 978-0-593-54914-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Cupcake Bakery Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense