Maple Hills Cozy Mysteries

When Nikki's husband of 20 years decides that he wanted a different life in Los Angeles it spawns a new life for her as well. Leaving behind Atlanta and her journalism career there, she and her college-bound son move to the small and tightknit town of Maple Hills, Vermont. With a bustling tourist season, the thriving community seems the perfect place to set up her new chocolate shop...yet opening day proves more deadly than profitable.

There is a dead body at The Lodge - a dead body that just happens to hail from Nikki's own hometown of Atlanta. As the newest, and arguably the nosiest, neighbor in the area, she knows all eyes will soon turn her way and tongues will start to wag. Nikki has no choice but to garner her new friends and put her extensive experience as a big city reporter to use, playing a modern-day Nancy Drew against a backdrop of gorgeous hills and the Canadian border.

Nikki Bates’s time in picturesque Maple Hills, Vermont, has been far from the postcard scene she first imagined. While her chocolate shop is doing well, her personal life has hit a few snags...and bodies...along the way. Between exposing corrupt officials, unmasking the Mafia, and solving more than a few murders, Nikki has made some friends and earned many enemies.