CUPCAKES & CALAMITY: A Cozy Bakery Mystery Novel

By Stella Mills

In the charming small town of Willow Creek, fresh pastries, festival season, and family traditions should have been the perfect recipe for a new beginning. But when baker Nora Whitfield returns home to take over her late grandmother's beloved bakery, Cupcakes & Calamity quickly turns from a cozy fresh start into a deadly mystery.

Sugar & Crumb Bakery has been a Willow Creek favorite for decades, famous for its irresistible red velvet cupcakes and warm small-town charm. Determined to honor her grandmother's legacy, Nora throws herself into preparing for the annual Harvest Festival and an important wedding order. But tensions rise when powerful businessman Victor Langley begins pressuring her over festival booth placements, old property disputes, and secrets buried deep in Willow Creek's history.

Then Victor Langley is found dead in the alley behind Sugar & Crumb.

Beside the body sits a bakery box filled with Nora's signature cupcakes.

Now the entire town is watching her.

With gossip spreading faster than frosting on warm cake, Nora must uncover the truth before her bakery, her reputation, and her future are destroyed. Alongside loyal friends, suspicious rivals, hidden town scandals, and Detective Eli Carter, Nora discovers that Willow Creek is filled with dangerous secrets, old betrayals, and people willing to kill to keep the past buried.

Perfect for fans of cozy mystery books, bakery mysteries, small-town suspense, amateur sleuth stories, culinary mysteries, and clean whodunits, Cupcakes & Calamity delivers delicious twists, unforgettable characters, and a page-turning mystery packed with charm, humor, and heart.

If you love cozy mysteries with bakers, coffee shops, festivals, recipes, family secrets, and slow-burn tension, this first installment in the Sugar & Crumb Mysteries series is the perfect treat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1RK41VZ
• ISBN13: 9798196839825
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"