Sisters, Suitors, and Sticky Fingers

Ellie Rockwell-Rogers has survived viral fame, a murdered pitmaster, and twenty years of cat hair—but nothing has prepared her for her daughter's wedding month, her sister's brand-new fiance, and the wedding gifts that keep disappearing wherever he smiles.

Evie Rockwell is finally getting married—November, outdoors, at Sage Creek Ranch, with her mother's whole blessing and only mild meteorological anxiety. Ellie has one job: be the mother of the bride, cry at the appropriate moments, and keep the manor's cats out of the cake tasting.

Then her sister arrives. Meredith McCarty—reformed, radiant, and engaged—sweeps into Tablerock with a fiance so charming the whole county is smitten by supper. Everyone except Ellie, who has spent fifteen years reading the faces of people who want something. And when wedding gifts, cash cards, and one irreplaceable keepsake start disappearing everywhere the man has been, a young cafe employee takes the blame—and Ellie won't let that stand.

Now she's untangling a trail of light fingers and lighter alibis while the wedding bears down like a freight train: fittings, family dinners, a barn full of borrowed chairs, and a colony of half-wild cats who insist on attending. Is Meredith's intended a con artist working the biggest room of his career? Is her sister his partner—or his mark? And can Ellie get to the truth without shattering the fragile peace she and Meredith have spent three years building?

The Silver Circle cats see more than anyone suspects. And this time, what they've seen could save a wedding—or stop one.