Every day is a holiday in Celebration Bay . . . but unfortunately, death doesn’t take a holiday.

New York City event planner Liv Montgomery is burned out, sick of the bridezillas, the mad men, the desperate housewives, the anything but sweet sixteen. So the job of event organizer in the small, rural town of Celebration Bay sounds like a little piece of heaven.

With the success of the Harvest on the Bay Festival, life is sweet, all apple crisp and homemade jams, cider donuts and pumpkin pies. But things hit a sour note when an itinerant entertainer is found dead, pinioned by an antique apple press.

Motives pile up higher than a bushel of apples, and Liv must navigate her way through a maze of secrets, lies, and Yankee taciturnity to find the killer before the Harvest on the Bay Festival heads for Foul Play at the Fair.