Some secrets are like Christmas lights: they get worse the more you try to untangle them.Noelle Cooper is teaming up with her family to launch a festive new venture: a holiday extravaganza complete with Santa, gallons of eggnog, and a spectacular tree lighting guaranteed to make the season merry and bright.
There’s just one problem: Holly Winterbourne, the abrasive holiday consultant Noelle’s father has hired to help pull it off. Holly insists on holding a practice run at Babbling Brook Campground—in the middle of July—and she rubs everyone the wrong way.
When an incident at the tree lighting turns deadly, the festivities come to a shocking halt. Noelle feels partly responsible for the tragedy, but then the police determine that it was no accident, and Noelle’s guilt turns to suspicion. She sets out to discover who tried to pull the plug on the festival.
Nikki Weber grew up reading in unconventional places: the backseat of a car, the top of the monkey bars on her backyard play set, and the corners of the quietest hallways in her elementary school. She was born and raised in Maine and spent her childhood summers camping with her family and their beagle. She loves dogs, nachos, coffee, and ice cream, and so far, she’s managed to work three of those four things into the books in the Maine Campground Cozy Mystery series. She’s working on her next book right now, so grab a copy of whatever you haven’t read yet and get started!
Burnt-out event planner, Noelle Cooper, is drifting. Unmotivated by her job and living in an apartment she hates, she’s just going through the motions of daily life. When Noelle finds out that her late boss left a special assignment just for her, she's cautiously optimistic about the day ahead and the secret event.What she discovers is an eye-opening look into a world that few know about, and a group of dogs she never knew existed. When one of the dogs slips away unnoticed, Noelle follows him, getting herself into a sticky situation, and changing her life forever.
This short story about a beagle rescue organization is fun and touching, while still providing light education about why beagles are often bred for laboratory research. No animals are harmed in the story, and there is no language or violence, just found family and a happy ending!
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You may enjoy this story as a standalone novella/short story. It also serves as the prequel to Campfires & Corpses, Book 1 in the Maine Campground Cozy Mystery Series, which features Noelle and her dog as the main characters.
"A lovely quick read and a good foundation for Book 1 “Campfires & Corpses”." - An Amazon Reviewer
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