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When Linnet Shellwin moves into a picturesque Victorian house known as the Valentine Villa - it is as pink and lacy as Valentine card - she looks forward to a long and successful career teaching English in the town's middle school. Then, some members of her out-of-control ninth-grade class concoct a plan to kill her, and a disconnected phone in the house begins to ring.

For Katherine Kale, who has recently returned to the United States after teaching overseas for years, Maple Creek, Michigan, is the perfect American town and the elegant blue Victorian on Walnut Street is the house of her dreams. When she is nearly poisoned at the annual Apple Fair, as another woman dies, Katherine suspects that Maple Creek may not be the paradise it seemed at first acquaintance and determines to find out who would lace a caramel apple with deadly poison. Her first clue, unearthed while planting chrysanthemums in her back yard, is an antique cameo.

When Cressa Hannett is cut from the team on a space project in Texas, she comes home to Maple Creek, Michigan, determined to start all over again. Her new home on Victorian Row looks just like the house she grew up in years ago and Cressa feels ready to regroup and find a new career in this seemingly idyllic place.

After arsonist Tag Noland torches her collie kennel, Susanna Kentwood's life begins to unravel. Her partner Amy betrays their friendship and accuses her of starting the fire, which throws a cloud over her reputation among her dog show friends. Her boyfriend stops calling her. The arsonist Tag Nolan vows to get even with Susanna, whose identification helped send him to prison.

Krista Marlow has traveled to a cozy cabin in the snow-shrouded woods of Huron Station, Michigan for a winter vacation. But a turn down a desolate road through the woods brings her to a horrible site. The body of a man hung from a tree, the arrow that pierced his heart like a push-pin in a streaming map of blood. The victim, a hunter, may have been killed by a radical anti-hunting group. A blood-soaked sign with the words “Stop the Kill” scrawled on it was positioned under his body.