Just when I thought the stickiest thing in my life was toffee…my best friend finds a dead body in her candy store.

Claire bursts into my boutique, pale and shaking—she’s just found candy supplier Dennis Granger lying dead in Sweet Retreat’s storeroom. To make things worse, someone wearing my boutique-branded scarf was spotted leaving the scene.

With Mabel and Teo at my side, I start digging for the truth.

Dennis had been blackmailing Claire over an old scandal. Blaine Hanson and Nadine Carver, both burned by a failed Sweet Retreat venture, would love a little revenge. And Trisha Hargrove—Dennis’s ex and a rival confectioner—might have wanted him gone for good.

The deeper I dig, the more dangerous it gets—anonymous notes, candy-coated threats, and planted evidence meant to frame me. Someone’s watching my every move.

If I can’t unwrap the truth in time, I’ll be the next one boxed up… and I doubt there’ll be a bow on top.