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Suburban soccer mom Amy has always wanted to stand out from the crowd. Former child prodigy Linnie just wants to fit in. The two sisters have been estranged for years, but thanks to a series of personal crises and their wily grandmother, they've teamed up to enter a national bake-off in the hopes of winning some serious cash. Armed with the top-secret recipe for Grammy's apple pie, they should be unstoppable. Sure, neither one of them has ever baked...

"Just as Ivy's brother Billy is about to get engaged to his beloved, a tragedy interrupts the happy moment. The body of longtime Santa Sofia resident Marisol Ruiz washes up on the beach-and it's even more heartbreaking since Marisol's father also recently died. But Marisol was a strong competitive swimmer. It seems unlikely there's even a grain of truth to the theory that she accidentally drowned. As Ivy gets to work helping her mentor, Olaya Solis,...

After all the planning, the big day has finally arrived. Eve Turner, one of Phyllis Newsom's boarders and best friend, is getting married to the affable Ray Porter. While she's sad to see Eve go, Phyllis is happy to host the event in her home and bake the wedding cake. The day runs as smoothly as buttercream, but the marriage doesn't last long past the honeymoon. When Roy is found dead at a bed-and-breakfast, Eve is the top suspect.

After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell's quest for dessert-competition glory.

Sophie Winston and her BFF, Nina Reid Norwood, share a sweet spot for animals. So Sophie is delighted to help when Nina cooks up Cupcakes and Pupcakes{u2014}a fundraising event for animal shelters. All the local bakeries will be selling treats, with the profits going to pups and kitties in need. But Old Town is in for a whole batch of trouble when a cupcake war erupts between two bakeries. Tongues wag and tempers rise when a partner leaves Sugar Baby...

Dudley Dormouse bakes an unusual cake and enters it in a competition in order to win a bike.

After her husband announces that their marriage no longer works for him, Wyn Morrison finds comfort and eventual revelation as she works long hours with the women of a bakery in Seattle.

"Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husband-to-be in the California beach town of Santa Sofia-but the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home. It's not just a place to work, but a community. And now one member of the community has been murdered . . . A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks and thousand-watt smile. But Ivy can't help noticing one...