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Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husbandtobe in the California beach town of Santa Sofiabut the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home Its not just a place to work but a communityand 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 thousandwatt smile But Ivy cant help noticing one morning that he seems distracted and off his game Later during a visit to the park where she and Miguel plan to hold their engagement partywith plenty of baked goods on the menuher rescue pug Agatha sniffs out Josh lying in a bed of poppiesscone cold dead Theres no reason for Ivy to get involved Shes busy enough holding down the fort while the shops owner Olaya cares for her recently orphaned niecenot to mention the stress when a new employee is fired and storms out in a rage Then a band of rabblerousers starts picketing the bakery claiming that Olayas sourdough roll is what killed Josh and Ivy hears some salacious gossip about her beloved boss She doesnt think theres a grain of truth to the seedy rumorsbut to prove it shell have to start sleuthing