Pastry and Poison

A Willowbrook Mystery

In Willowbrook, some recipes kill. Some resurrect.
And some—will change everything.

Amelia Hawthorne thought she knew her grandmother's cafe,
until the day a forbidden cookbook unveiled a darkness brewing beneath every perfectly frosted surface.

One slice of cake. One moment of truth.
An entire town's destiny hanging by a thread of midnight bloom and ancient secrets.

The Syndicate has been watching. Waiting.
Controlling minds through every carefully poisoned pastry,
every calculated crumb that passes unsuspecting lips.

They thought their recipe for manipulation was perfect.
They were wrong.

A magical cat. A heritage of culinary alchemy.
A baker who will become the most dangerous weapon Willowbrook has ever seen.

Her Blackthorn Winter Cake is coming.
And when it arrives, nothing will ever be the same.

Some families inherit china.
The Hawthornes inherit revolution—with teeth sharp enough to devour generations of lies.

Pastry and Poison: Where every ingredient is a weapon, and truth is the most lethal spice of all.