When baker and amateur sleuth Claire Rollins agrees to judge a cooking competition at historic Cider Mill Farm near Lexington, MA, she expects pumpkin pies and autumn treats—not murder. After a contestant collapses during a cooking demonstration, Claire’s intuition kicks in with unsettling visions of a colonial woman desperately trying to communicate across centuries.
As Claire, her best friend Nicole, and their friend and business partner Robby investigate, they discover a link to a 250-year-old diary containing recipes for both healing remedies and deadly poisons which leads to a tangled web of family secrets, threatened heritage, and desperate measures.
With the help of Detective Ian Fuller and her Corgis, Claire and her friends race to solve both the colonial mystery and the modern murder before the killer strikes again. In this cozy mystery with a historical twist, Claire must determine which is more dangerous—old knowledge or present ambition—while learning that some family recipes are never meant to be shared.