Sarah Strohmeyer

When her friend fails to show up for her own wedding just before her uncle turns up dead, Bubbles Yablonsky goes undercover in Whoopee, Pennsylvania, where she boards with a local Amish family.

Given a week to prove her investigative abilities, flaky hairdresser and aspiring journalist Bubbles endeavors to clear an accused woman of her executive husband's murder.

On her first day as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands in jail with a murder suspect named Crazy Popeye, who grants Bubbles an exclusive interview shortly before keeling over herself. Suddenly, Bubbles's interview notes are a hot commodity among a romance-obsessed police detective, a Polish Mafioso, and a podiatrist on the lam. Meanwhile, her longtime boyfriend, Steve Stiletto, asks if she'll pose as his fiance in order to stave off an overseas job...

Recently fired from her influential television reporting job and struggling to raise a teenage daughter alone, Julie Mueller finds renewal in her relationships with women family members and in a dessert cooking class, where she reconnects with an old flame.

Racing to an abandoned coal mine where she has been told she will find a big news story, Bubbles Yablonsky instead finds her boyfriend out cold and the body of a murdered man nearby.

"Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested in snagging a full scholarship to Harvard than a full-time boyfriend. That doesn't mean she's oblivious to the ways of the heart. Or, rather, the head. Because after months of research, Addie has discovered how to make anyone fall in love. All you need is the secret formula. But will her discovery be enough to win the coveted...