🎃 The Fall Festival in Pleasant Creek is the highlight of the season, with pumpkin spice everything and cheerful crowds. Baker Mia Bell has high hopes for her prize-winning pumpkin pie—until the grumpy festival judge takes one fatal bite and collapses. When the police declare it murder and the main ingredient points back to Mia's bakery, she must clear her name. With her trusty golden retriever by her side, Mia digs into the town's secrets, finding that beneath the cozy autumn veneer, plenty of people had reasons to want the judge dead. Can she sift through the clues and find the real killer before the first snowfall—or will she be the next victim of this deadly harvest?
