Pigs, Pies & Problems

Karen S Ramos

In Lazy Hill, Oklahoma, the biggest scandal usually involves a missing coffee mug and a well-placed prank. Jed and Mabel Hawkins have spent a lifetime perfecting the art of playful one-upmanship on their family farm—until a special-delivery letter from a city law office turns their quiet life upside down. Jed's eccentric Uncle Silas has left them an inheritance, and word travels fast in a town of two thousand.

Word travels fastest of all to Hank Thompson, Mabel's smooth-talking, work-allergic brother, who shows up in a borrowed Cadillac with big plans and zero intention of leaving anytime soon. As Lazy Hill gears up for its annual Heritage Festival—complete with a chaotic pig parade, a bake-off no judge is prepared for, and a town orchestra that can't quite agree on the same song—Hank's schemes grow bolder, and the gap between what he wants and what he's willing to do to get it grows more dangerous by the day.

What starts as small-town mischief and pie-tin rivalries builds toward something no one in Lazy Hill sees coming—a turn that will test the town's spirit, reveal what Jed and Mabel truly valued, and ask the people of Lazy Hill just how far they're willing to go to honor a legacy of community, forgiveness, and love.

Pigs, Pies & Problems is a warm, funny, and ultimately moving small-town story about family, greed, and the surprising strength of a community that refuses to give up on itself.