The Skoghall Mystery Series Book 1

Jess never thought starting over would be easy. But she never imagined it would be this hard. Jessica Vernon sees divorce as an opportunity to hit the reset button on her life. She settles into a charming old farmhouse in an arts community on the Mississippi River, where she imagines her new friends—the painter, the baker, the potter, the antique dealer—joining her for wine and cheese to celebrate her first book launch. But she didn’t count on her new puppy being so much work, or the locals being a little too close-knit, or her farmhouse, which was such a deal, being haunted by the woman who was murdered there forty years ago. On the up side, Jess has caught the baker’s eye, and the potter has caught hers. Romance, however, is tricky for newly-divorced women, especially the haunted ones. It turns out there’s more than one war being waged in Skoghall, and if she can’t solve the murder, Jess might not survive her first season on the river.