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While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future.

The incognito owner of a mystery bookstore still enjoys fighting crime after hours--especially when no danger's involved.

In the heat of the Rio Carnival, Ellie succumbs to her charismatic boss Diogo Serrador.

Hannah is feeling the heat when she agrees to bake apple turnovers for a fundraiser and partake in the charity talent contest.

In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth.

Hannah's popular bakery, The Cookie Jar, licated in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is best known for its tempting confections--until best-selling cookbook author and television personality Connie McIntyre i

It's summer time in Lake Eden, Minnesota, which means picnics aplenty for bakery proprietress and amateur sleuth Hannah.

Judge Roy Bean is an infamous arbiter of Old West justice. For years, he writes admiring letters to British stage actress Lillie Langtry, and she occasionally responds.

Hannah takes a break from sifting through her multiple marriage proposals.

Hannah Swensen, like most women in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is not a fan of Ronni Ward--the man-stealing gym bunny.

Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull.

The Cookie Jar is abuzz with activity. Hannah's all set to make sweets for the upcoming fair, judge a bake-off and assist a friend in his magic act.

Just when her life seems to settle down, Hannah is surprised by the news that her companion, Norman Rhodes, is buying a house.

Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown are a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts.

With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota.