The Returned Invitation

A returned wedding invitation. A false death notice. A secret someone buried fifteen years ago.

Tessa Quill has spent twenty-three years as the postmistress of Cedar Springs, Georgia, learning that people reveal themselves by what they send, hide, forward, refuse, or return. So when a cream linen wedding invitation comes back stamped Recipient Deceased, Tessa notices one impossible problem immediately.

The recipient, Graham Bellweather, is very much alive.

The invitation was sent by Ivy Merle Sutton, Cedar Springs’ beloved florist, who is days away from marrying steady hardware-store owner Caleb Rusk. But Graham is more than a guest. He is Ivy’s former fiancé—the man everyone believes abandoned her fifteen years ago.

Then more invitations return with chilling messages. Moved, No Forwarding Address. Refused. Return to Sender. Each one points toward Ivy’s broken first engagement, a forged letter, and a truth that never reached its destination.

When Graham is found unconscious in Ivy’s flower cooler with a torn envelope in his hand, Tessa must sort through old heartbreak, church records, bakery gossip, suspicious wedding plans, and the silent judgment of Archibald, her enormous Maine Coon cat.

Someone made the mail lie once.

Now Tessa must deliver the truth before Ivy says the wrong vow for the second time.

Perfect for fans of small-town cozy mysteries, amateur women sleuths, clever cats, Southern charm, wedding mysteries, old secrets, and gentle suspense.