Thread Lightly

She bought a quilt shop for a fresh start. The ghost came free with purchase.

After losing her husband, Emma Hale packs up her two kids and moves to her late grandmother's house in Thimblewick Hollow, Kentucky, the sleepy river town where she spent every childhood summer. Then she does something a little bit crazy: she buys the town's old quilt shop on impulse.

Her fifteen-year-old daughter is keeping a list of everything wrong with Kentucky, and it's at fifty-one items and counting. Her six-year-old son swears "the pink lady" in the shop talks to him. And Emma keeps hearing someone criticize her window displays when she's all alone.

Then the pink lady shows herself.

Opal Mae Pruitt ran Thimble & Thread for forty-six years. She's been dead for three months. She's stuck for eternity in pink curlers and a quilted housecoat, she has strong opinions about Emma's hair, and she uses "bless your heart" like a loaded pistol. She also has no intention of leaving until someone proves who pushed her down the basement stairs.

The sheriff, Emma's childhood firefly-catching buddy, says it was an accident. Opal's lifelong quilting rival says good riddance. A slick developer in Italian loafers wants the building. And the church ladies keep bringing casseroles. Eight of them. All the same.

With help from the Frayed Knots, a Friday-night quilting circle that runs on gossip and boxed wine, plus a retired ferryman, a teenage internet sleuth, and a very grumpy goose in a red bow tie, Emma starts pulling at loose threads. But someone in Thimblewick Hollow has been keeping a secret for over a hundred years, and they'll do anything to keep it stitched shut.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Laugh-out-loud cozy mysteries
• Sassy, meddling ghosts
• Quilting, small towns, and found family
• Twists you won't see coming
• Bonus recipes from Opal's recipe box!

Thread Lightly is the first book in the Ghost Stitches Mysteries. Grab your copy and meet the ghost who's dead set on being in charge.