Reading Between the Leaves: Chapter One – In a Pinch

All right, tea cozy mystery peeps. Chapter One of READING BETWEEN THE LEAVES is up and ready for your perusal.

Penelope knew she should have dispensed with her corset, but she couldn’t resist wearing it, given the auspiciousness of the occasion. Of all the moments in her newly eventful life, this was the one to which she’d looked forward most.

In the few months since arriving in Pacific Grove she’d gone from having never dared dream of running her own business to spearheading two or three, depending on how one looked at them; and all were about to celebrate their opening day. Not bad for a gal who just a few weeks prior was living in a jail cell—a fabulously decorated jail cell, mind you—on suspicion of murder.
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