Paisley MacDonald

The first storm of the season is rolling across the Rockies, and Copper Whisk Catering has been booked to feed a Denver boardroom for four days at Timberline Lodge. Gemma Logan has finally begun to breathe.

Her sister’s memory is warming in the kitchen. The lodge’s owner keeps finding reasons to hold her hand. The mayor has been quiet for almost...

Some weddings end in tears. This one ends in a body.

Twelve months ago she left a Denver dining room and a collapsed marriage and came home to a mountain town she had stopped calling hers. She meant to stay a week. She stayed to run her dead sister’s catering company, in her sister’s kitchen, under her sister’s copper pans, cooking her sister’s...

She built a life from scratch. Someone just poisoned it.

Darby Quinn traded a prestigious Manhattan law career for hand-rolled truffles and the quiet streets of Birch Hollow, Vermont. Three years later, Velvet Cocoa—her meticulously run chocolate shop—is everything she has: proof that a woman who once weaponized language in corporate boardrooms...