Potions and Pastries
In this New York Times bestselling mystery series, witch Katie Lightfoot bakes enchanted treats — and faces more than her fair share of toil and trouble....
It’s been exactly two years since Katie and her aunt and uncle opened the Honeybee Bakery, where they serve delicious — and bespelled — treats to the good people of Savannah. After a dinner celebrating the bakery’s anniversary, they all take a stroll along the waterfront and meet Aunt Lucy’s friend Orla, a colorful character who has been telling the fortunes of locals and tourists alike for years.
The next day, Orla meets with what seems like a terrible accident, but Katie’s witchy intuition tells her it was something more sinister. Together with her trustworthy coven and her firefighter boyfriend, she’ll race to find out what happened to the unfortunate fortune-teller before the piping hot trail goes cold....
Bailey Cates
A pseudonym of Cricket McRae.
Cricket McRae enjoys home crafts like food preservation, cheese making, candle making, and fiber arts. She writes the Sophie Mae Reynolds Homecrafting Mystery Series. As Bailey Cates, she also writes the Magical Bakery Mysteries.
For two years Cricket managed her own soap making business, including all product design, manufacturing and marketing. The recipes included in her first book, Lye in Wait, are all Cricket's original formulations. She has also worked in a variety of other fields ranging from drivers license examiner to program manager for a major software firm. This fulfills her mothers warning that shed never have a regular job if she insisted on studying philosophy in college.
Magical Bakery Mysteries
Magical Bakery Mysteries consists of ten books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.