Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.

Martha Sloane has relocated from Boston to out-of-the-way Riley Creek, Tennessee to take over her beloved aunt's struggling coffee and birding shop. Just as she's about to launch a Birds 'n' Beans online store, a blizzard blows in, the power goes out, and a dead body shows up. With time running out, Martha has to think fast before anyone else gets blown away.

Martha has settled in as the owner of Birds 'n' Beans coffee and birding shop and the entire Riley Creek gang is looking forward to a brisk spring tourist trade. Chief Perry and Martha are taking their relationship to the next level just as she is elected President of the Retailers' Collective and writers arrive for the village's First Annual Nature Writers' Retreat. But when the keynote speaker ends up on ice and one of Martha's BFFs is the prime...

"Victor Vollmer, introduced to readers in Paperboy and Copyboy, is 21 years old now and has been waiting for three years to reunite with Philomene Moreau, the South Louisiana free spirit who saved him from drowning in the Mississippi River. Soon after Phil arrives in Memphis, Vic's meticulously planned weekend comes crashing down as a world event unfolds. Vic, still dealing with his worrisome stutter, and Phil, needing badly to share her secret, grapple...