Crafts and Life

It's Independence Day in Winter Garden, Virginia, and the residents are gearing up for their annual celebration. The Down South Café is open and flourishing, and Amy Flowers is busy making pies and cakes for the holiday. The only thorn in her side is Chamber of Commerce director George Lincoln, who is trying to buy the café so he can tear it down and build a B&B on the site.
 
When George collapses while eating at the Down South, everybody assumes it's a heart attack—until the autopsy declares it to be poisoning. Now, it’s up to Amy to prove her innocence before her liberty is lost.

It should be a great celebration time for Winter Garden and the Down South Café, but things take a turn for the worse when George Lincoln comes in for breakfast, and to try and get Amy to sell up to him again, just as he is finishing up his meal and whilst chatting with the local Doctor, George suddenly keels over, and Dr Kent can't revive him! Everyone assumes he has had a heart attack or stroke, but when the autopsy is done it is discovered he was poisoned, luckily this time Amy and the Down South staff are not in the frame for the murder. Luckily in particular for Jackie, a member of staff and  Amy's cousin, as she has the problem of her flighty mother who has flitted into their lives again, and this time she embarrasses them all by turning up drunk at the Independence Day dance.

Now Amy has to cope with helping Jackie, Amy's mother has concussion and needs help, Aunt Bess is kidnapped (or not) by Jackie's mother Jenna, oh and George Lincoln's brother Thomas keeps popping up and scaring Amy, add in an injury to Amy's hand and life couldn't get much worse …. or could it?