Lucy Resnick's nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend's gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone|s digging holes on her lan &and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head, which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery digger. When the dim-witted sheriff arrests one of Lucy's best friends, the former reporter puts her own problems on the back burner and starts investigating. What she finds is a patchwork of clues, |an injured puppy, a sapphire necklace gone missing, and a string of poison-pen letters |that draws her dep into a web of small-town secrets. Word travels fast in Buttercup. When the killer learns Lucy is on the trail, Lucy finds she needs more than her reporting skills to save her friend--she needs a Christmas miracle.
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