Lark Westerly Knihy

Martina's café staff have gone missing. Dequan's mystery Christmas holiday is far too full of homicidal geese. Martina offers Dequan sanctuary-and nights in her feather bed. Time flies, geese are a laying, and the time for Christmas magic is nearly over.After Christmas, Martina wakes to a world of trouble. How can she run her café when her staff is MIA? Who is that handsome gooseman at the market? Why does he crash her café with six geese? Gott im Himmel! Where is the gentleman lover of her dreams?The staff have left a message on a Christmas napkin. If it means what Martina fears, a family row is brewing.Dequan's plans to spend Christmas with his cousin are thwarted when Lucy gets a better offer. Now he's at a fairy-tale B&B.The people seem nice but peculiar. Six geese seem-oddly homicidal. Are they really chasing Dequan, or is it his Christmas feather they're after? What's with all the eggs? Then, at the market, he sees the fräulein of his dreams.After taking refuge in Fee Kaffee, Dequan fills in for Martina's missing staff, but the geese are still on his case and laying eggs.Martina has a feather bed that's big enough for two. Dequan's mystery holiday takes a delicious turn-until the geese, the café staff and his phone bring reality crashing in. It's such a mess, and Martina needs a holiday.

Queenie had no idea why she suffered from the Caledonian Curse at Halloween. Maybe a move to a charming, remodelled church would help. Then she met the Fixer... Since her parents became grey nomads, Queenie Hart was just about alone in the world. Her strange obsession with all things Scottish in the weeks before Halloween was ruining her life. While in the grip of the Caledonian Curse, she insulted people and spent money she couldn't afford on bagpipe serenades. She turned down a date with her perfect man, angered her employers, and pushed her landlady into giving her notice. She, and her little baking business Queen of Tarts, would soon be homeless. Queenie's luck changed when her dad's odd cousin found her a rent-free home for three months. The Belfry was a converted church, and Queenie was soon embroiled with the attractive but married landlord, and a man she knew as the Fixer. The Fixer helped her whenever she needed... but Halloween was coming, Caledonia was calling, and it was so the wrong time be starting on a new romance.

Lili and Chiara never miss a rostered shift at their aunt's café. When Yannick makes them an offer they don't want to refuse, they have to make a choice. Trusting their future to a grumpy baker and a Christmas wish is risky, but sharing is their style. Why change that now?Lili and Chiara love their jobs at Fee Kaffee, but after the peach schnapps and poteen incident sets off a family row, their home life feels increasingly restrictive. When Irish Toby tosses them charmed apples, they decide to make a Christmas wish. The café offers a venue, but their apples have vanished. It seems they're not the only ones using Fee Kaffee for a little Christmas magic.Yannick has worked for Martina Bless for three years. He likes the job, but Martina's twin nieces constantly distract him. In an effort to get them off his mind, he makes a charmed cake meant to attract his heart's desire. He's just added two spare apples to his recipe when he hears someone in the café.The twins need men, and Yannick needs a woman. It might be a match made in heaven, but there are two of them and only one of him. The three of them go to Yannick's house to thrash the matter out. Once they find their solution, everything is fine...maybe.Meanwhile, at the café, Martina faces the post-Christmas rush with a staff gone suddenly AWOL. The only clue she has is a napkin with a two-word message saying Just Eloped.

Until a couple of months ago, Tiny Pippin Pearmain lived a quiet life with two cats in Jellico Bay. Now Cousin Lupin is dead, Cousin Jan is grieving, and Pip's calm is soon to be doubly disrupted. A new film part is on offer, but before she considers that, she has to deal with Lupin's legacy. Pip hasn't worked in a decade when her new agent calls unexpectedly. A movie role is on offer, and Magda Quest Saxer wants an answer in less than a week. She gives Pip an implied ultimatum. Take it and fly to Sydney for a screen test. Turn it down it and never work again. With no one else to advise her, Pip consults the cats. Kittisack and Amberjill are probably real. Lupin's cat is made of pottery. All of them think she ought to take the role. This disruption is bad enough, but Cousin Lupin's legacy is confusing. Pip risks a call to ask what it's all about, and within the hour she's off on a magical mystery tour on a yacht crewed by people she doesn't know. It's bewildering stuff, especially when one of the crew goes missing and the other two don't seem to care. Pip cares, but dialling triple zero has its complications when someone nearby can make the phone jump right out of her hand.