Are you ready for Christmas? PLEASE NOTE: This book was originally a part of the Cozy Christmas Murder boxed set, so if you've read the boxed set, you've already read it. If not, enjoy this first book in the incredible series! Autumn Roth has a good job and a long-term boyfriend, whom she hopes will become her fiancé before the year is out. When she loses both in the space of a weekend, she is convinced that her life can’t get any worse…until she witnesses an innocent man’s death while visiting her aunt and uncle at their assisted living home. Trying to maintain her holiday cheer is difficult, especially when Autumn becomes the killer’s next target. With only weeks to go before Christmas, she struggles to deal with the new direction her life is taking… and to catch a killer before someone else gets hurt.

Book One in this amazing NEW series by Patti Benning is available in the Boxed Set COZY CHRISTMAS MURDER. https://www.amazon.com/Cozy-Christmas... Struggling with trying desperately to make her way in the world as an independent adult, Autumn Roth is still recovering from the craziest Christmas that she’s ever had, when she is hit with another loss; this time, the murder of someone close to her. She’s determined to figure out who the killer is, but when the clues seem to point toward someone she believes is innocent, she knows that something is deeply wrong. With the help of her aunt, uncle, and friends at Asheville Meadows, she has to dig deep to find the killer before an innocent man takes the fall.

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, Asheville Meadows Retirement Home looks like Cupid has moved in—there are pink hearts and frills everywhere, and romance is in the air. Autumn Roth is certain that she’s the only one there without holiday plans, and the man she’s been dating since Christmas doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to make any. It’s only after Autumn comes home one evening, to find out that her house has been burglarized, that her romantic woes begin to seem small. The thief didn’t take much, but he left behind something that will change Autumn forever – a corpse. Shaken to the core, she struggles to put together the pieces of the puzzle and solve the case, but what she doesn’t realize is that the killer is much closer than she could ever have imagined.

What would you do? When Autumn Roth gets a once-in-a-lifetime job offer from a local five-star restaurant, she finds herself torn between furthering her career, or staying at the job that she has grown to love. After a disastrous job interview, which ends with a dead body and a number of unanswered questions, Autumn soon realizes that she has much more urgent priorities. She becomes one of six suspects as the police begin to investigate the murder, and when the evidence begins to point toward her, Autumn decides to take matters into her own hands without realizing that she has made a grievous mistake.

Murder is no picnic! Autumn Roth is finally getting comfortable with her new job and her new relationship. In fact, things have never been better between her and Nicholas Holt, the attractive and charming guy who runs the local nursing home. When he invites her to a family reunion, she sees it as the next step in their relationship and is both excited and nervous at the prospect of meeting his family. Things don’t go exactly as planned when disaster strikes at the family reunion, leaving one person dead and a handful of murder suspects, who just happen to be related to the man with whom Autumn is falling in love. She finds herself getting drawn into the investigation despite her best efforts, and can only hope that their relationship survives the family secrets that she discovers.

Ready for a tasty murder mystery? It’s been a beautiful summer, but for the past couple of weeks, Autumn Roth has been stuck indoors, working her fingers to the bone. Asheville Meadows might be one of the best nursing homes in the state, but recently it has had more than its fair share of issues. As more and more employees leave, Autumn and her friends try to pick up the slack, but when the nursing home is hit with a string of mysterious thefts, things begin to get out of hand. The discovery of a body on the grounds only makes things worse. As panic spreads, it seems certain that the nursing home will be shut down unless the culprit is found.

Life is hard when your dreams seem impossible. Autumn Roth has hopes and dreams that she dares not admit. Every day on her way Asheville Meadows, Autumn drives by the empty grocery store where she used to work. Every day, she sees the For Sale sign and wonders about the possibilities. It isn’t until her boyfriend encourages her to take the next step forward that she realizes opening her own restaurant in the little riverfront store might actually become a reality. When a suspicious death takes place on the property, lowering its value even further, Autumn decides to make her move, but she’s not the only one who wants the store, and it seems that her competition is willing to kill for it. Will following her dream turn into a deadly nightmare?