As Gouda As Dead??

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From AS GOUDA AS DEAD nationally bestselling Cheese Shop Mysteries by Avery Aames aka Daryl Wood Gerber

By: Charlotte Bessette

I’m getting married! Yes. Soon. In days. I can’t wait. But there’s so much to do. Get my hair done. Get a massage and work out all the knots from last week’s cheese deliveries. Put together the boutonnieres which were cluttering my kitchen table. Freckles designed a pretty dress for me. Ecru silk with a lace overlay, cocktail length, cap sleeves. But it needs hemming. Where to find the time?

Especially now. Grandmère chose this week of all weeks to put on the Lovers Trail event. Everyone—and I mean everyone, in Ohio and nearby states—is coming to town. It is, after all, February, the month of love. Chocolate, cheese, wine tastings, sleigh rides, and more. At Fromagerie Bessete we have gift baskets to put together! At least a dozen. And Rebecca, my assistant, wants to do a special basket to offer for a drawing, to lure people into the shop.

Tomorrow, I told myself. Hemming tomorrow. First thing.

Rags, my Ragdoll cat, weaved around my ankles as I jotted a note on my long list of to-do items: touch base with Freckles. What’s up? he was asking.

“Nothing,” I said. “Just going crazy by the second.”

It didn’t help that Meredith, my best friend, just called and told me she had something up her sleeve. I’m not sure what she meant. Giggling, she said she was coming over to tell me all about it. She wouldn’t take no for an answer. I heard Delilah snickering in the background. Back in high school, they had talked me into an evening of tie-dying our hair, and I had blithely agreed. Yipes!

For strength I took a bite of Gouda from the plate of snacks I’d fixed. The morsel melted in my mouth. I followed it with a sip of sparkling water. Whatever my pals had in mind, I would be ready. Prepared. Fed.

What could be worse than tie-dyed hair?

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