Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

safe topic of conversation. “We will need to start the heater in the back room tomorrow.”

“I will handle it,” Clara said, her voice flat and decisive.

She set the knife down and reached for her water glass, but before she could take a sip, her phone began to buzz on the counter.

The screen lit up with an unfamiliar ten-digit number, continue reading …