Julian Frost – författare

Quog and Oort are on their way to Kevin's birthday party. Unfortunately, their spaceship has crashed. Pick up this book to lend them a hand!An interstellar exploration of hands and what's inside them, from the award-winning creators of the internationally successful Do Not Lick This Book.

Sweetleaf Café is Noah Garcia's sanctuary. After years of careful work, the cozy Bluebonnet Falls café is more than a business. It is the place where he belongs.Then Martin Caldwell walks in.The feared food critic has a reputation for destroying restaurants with a single review, and he wastes no time humiliating Noah in front of the morning crowd. Minutes later, Caldwell takes one sip of Noah's House Special latte and collapses on the café floor.The evidence vanishes as quickly as the man who delivered it. The sheriff sees a public argument, a poisoned drink, and a café owner with everything to lose. Mystery novelist Eric Chu, who had his own ugly history with Caldwell, looks almost as suspicious.With the town watching and their reputations crumbling, Noah and Eric form an uneasy alliance. Noah knows people, gossip, and the hidden rhythms of Bluebonnet Falls. Eric knows motive, misdirection, and the shape of a good murder plot. Together, they follow a trail of missing bottles, secret payments, old grudges, and festival whispers toward a killer with far more to protect than a reputation.But the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore what is growing between them.Murder at Sweetleaf Café is a cozy MM murder mystery about suspicion, trust, small-town secrets, and two men who find love while trying not to be framed for murder.

Grant Evans returned to Rosewood Harbor to fix broken things, not investigate them. But when Leo Hartman, the town's beloved florist and the closest thing Grant had to family, is found dead inside his flower shop, Grant knows the official explanation does not fit.The police call it natural causes. Grant sees the missing ledger, the angry phone call from the night before, and the single yellow carnation left like a message in Leo's hand.Philip Mak prefers archives to chaos. As Rosewood Harbor's careful, closed-off librarian, he has built a quiet life around order, research, and locked doors. Then Grant comes to him with a mystery no one else wants to solve, and Philip finds himself pulled into a trail of town records, old grudges, coded flowers, and a 1955 journal that suggests the so-called Cupid's Curse may be more blueprint than ghost story.As Valentine's Day approaches and the town prepares for its annual gala, Grant and Philip uncover a pattern of secrets that someone is desperate to keep buried. The closer they come to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore the danger around them - or the slow-burn attraction growing between them.In Rosewood Harbor, curses do not kill. People do.