A Whole Latte Frost & Mystery

he first frost has arrived early. It didn’t come alone.

Maplewood should be glowing with pumpkins, copper leaves, and preparations for the First Frost Festival. Instead, an impossible layer of ice is creeping across the village, touching only the homes and businesses connected to Ella Maplewood’s family.

Then Grandma Maplewood’s final jar of First Frost Syrup vanishes from the café’s locked pantry.

As the frost spreads, Maplewood’s clock begins losing thirteen minutes every night. Footprints appear without a walker. Strange messages form across the café windows. Even more unsettling, Ella keeps glimpsing a frozen street inside the icy reflections, along with a mysterious woman dressed in white.

Someone in Maplewood knows what the syrup can open.

With Reed, the Cinnamon Roll Squad, and one determined fox familiar beside her, Ella must follow the clues through orchard paths, family recipes, and secrets her grandmother never shared. If she can’t recover the syrup before the festival, the frost may claim far more than Maplewood’s perfect autumn.

Curl up with a magical cozy mystery filled with pumpkin-spice treats, small-town secrets, warm friendship, gentle romance, and a fox who refuses to let winter have the final word.