The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Laurie Gilmore
- Language: English
- Genre: Holiday Romance
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Jeanie Ellis had never killed a man before, but tonight might be the night.
Desperate times and all. She clutched the baseball bat tighter in her fist and
crept down the rickety, back staircase.
She hadn’t slept in three nights. Not since moving into the apartment
above her aunt’s café. Well, her café, technically. Jeanie was officially the
new owner of The Pumpkin Spice Café, her Aunt Dot’s pride and joy until
exactly two weeks ago, when the older woman announced she was retiring –
and taking off for the Caribbean for a few weeks to work on her tan.
Apparently, Dot could think of no one better to take over her beloved café
than her favorite – and only, as Jeanie pointed out – niece. An idea that now
seemed completely absurd as Jeanie tiptoed off the last step prepared for
battle.
Every night, she’d heard strange noises. Scritchy-scratchy type noises
with the occasional clangy-bangy type noise. At first, she’d tried to chalk it
up to the wind, or maybe an animal scurrying through the back alley. She
absolutely refused to let her mind take off down a path to the worst-case
scenario, like she usually did. She would not allow herself to imagine an
escaped serial killer creeping up her back steps. That banging was definitely
not an armed robber, here to take the meager change her aunt kept in the cash
register.
Jeanie was starting fresh.
Jeanie was a new woman.
The quaint seaside town of Dream Harbor and its inhabitants knew
nothing about her, and she planned to take full advantage of that.
A shuffling noise at the back door caught her attention. She would take
full advantage of her ‘New Life, New Jeanie’ plan as soon as she figured out
what was keeping her up at night. No one could live a laid-back, quaint,
small-town life with a murderer outside their back door. That was just logical.
She choked up on the bat and crossed the small hallway between the
stairs and the door that led to the alley behind the café. Although ‘alley’
wasn’t quite the right word for it.
Alley conjured images of overflowing trash
cans and scurrying rats. But Jeanie wasn’t in Boston anymore. She was in
Dream Harbor, which she was convinced someone must have actually
dreamed up. It was far too idyllic to have sprung up naturally. No, the space
behind the café and the other businesses on Main Street was more like its
own little side street, with room for delivery trucks and tidy trash bins. She’d
even seen some of the other shop owners taking breaks and chit-chatting back
there during the day. Not that she’d talked to anyone yet. She wasn’t quite
ready for that, for being the new kid.
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