Chocolate Chills
A Mission Inn-possible Cozy Mystery Book 6
Rosie A. Point
Contents
Meet the Characters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
What’s Next for Charlie and Gamma?
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Meet the Characters
Charlie Smith (Mission)—A spy-in-hiding, Charlie’s come to her grandmother’s inn in Gossip, Texas, under the guise of being an assistant. Really, she’s hiding out from her ex-husband, Kyle Turner, a rogue spy who is out to get her.
Georgina Franklin (Mission)—Charlie’s super-spy grandmother who raised her. Georgina (or Gamma, as Charlie calls her) is the most decorated spy in the history of the NSIB. She’s retired, but still as smart and spry as ever.
Brian Marble (Smulder)—Charlie’s agent partner who came to Gossip to keep her from getting into any more trouble than she is already. Handsome and smart, he usually does the right thing, even if it means hurting his friends. But with Charlie around, that’s becoming increasingly difficult.
Lauren Harris—The happy-go-lucky chef at the Gossip Inn. A master baker, she’s always got a delicious cupcake prepared for the inn’s lunches and dinners. She’s jolly, with bright red hair she wears in pigtails. She recently had a baby.
Jason Harris—Lauren’s perpetually stressed-out husband. Jason works a lot and doesn’t have a lot of time to hang out at home but tries his best. Short, with brown hair, and a bit of a belly.
Jordan Ames—Once homeless, Jordan is now the live-in carer for the cats at the kitten foster center attached to the Gossip Inn. Red hair, often prone to sniffles, and keeps to himself.
Cocoa Puff—Georgina’s chocolate brown cat. He’s friendly as can be, at least with people he trusts. Often sleeps on Charlie’s bed and accompanies her around the inn, helping her dust the various trinkets and tables.
Sunlight—A ginger adolescent cat who stayed on in the kitten foster center. He is particularly attached to Charlie, who’s considering adopting him. Not that she can—she might have to leave soon…
Jessie Belle-Blue—Jessie is Georgina’s worst nightmare. As the owner of the local cattery, she hates the fact that Georgina has opened a kitten foster center in direct competition to her. Will do whatever it takes to come out on top.
Detective Crowley—The local detective who’s often saddled with the cases that Charlie and Gamma wind up investigating. May or may not have a stupendous, unrequited crush on Charlie.
Hannah Greerson—The newest assistant in the kitten foster center in the Gossip Inn. She’s tiny but dynamite comes in small packages, as they always say. She doesn’t like Jordan Ames at all!
Kayla Wart—One of the twin sisters currently staying in the inn. She’s sweet and kind but struggles to express her emotions with her sister.
Josephine Wart—The angrier, meaner twin who doesn’t approve of most of what her sister does. She’s convinced that Kayla is always going to do the wrong thing. What can she do to stop her from making those mistakes?
Dr. Barry Briggs—The local medical examiner. He works closely with the sheriff’s department, the DA, and the local detective, but has been acting a little strange of late. Why could that be?
1
“Operation Burger is a go. I repeat, Operation Burger is a go.” My grandmother’s voice came through my earpiece, soft but crystal clear.
It was the signal that Brian, my boyfriend who was one of many special agents from the NSIB in and around the Gossip Inn, was out of the way. Occupied with a gardening emergency in the Shroom Shed—another of the inn’s eclectic spots.
I scratched the resident cat, Cocoa Puff, behind his furry chocolate brown ears, then stowed my feather duster in the hall closet and made my way to the head of the stairs.
“I’m inbound to the rendezvous point,” I breathed, the mic on my throat—a flesh-colored patch that was undetectable, even by the NSIB’s standards—picking me up.
“Copy.”
I moved down two flights of stairs, took a hard right, and entered the kitten foster center that was attached to the inn. My grandmother’s side project. The interior was empty at this time of the evening, most of the kittens curled up in their favorite spots. The doorway that led to the room where the youngest kittens were kept, fed, and incubated if they needed it, leaked light.
Jordan Ames was the assistant on duty, but he napped between seven and eight in the evening.
I paused to scratch my favorite kitty, Sunlight, behind the ears, then paused beside the back doors of the inn, not daring to peep out of the window next to them.
This was it.
It had boiled down to this moment.
After an entire month of being trapped inside the inn, my every move monitored, with my boss, Special Agent in Charge Grant hiding out in the grounds and calling the shots, I was about to do it.
It being a quick trip to the Hungry Steer to get a hamburger.
While I adored everything our chef at the inn, Lauren, cooked up, I needed a reason to sneak out of the inn.
It had been an entire month since I’d returned to the small town, Gossip, to find out that my rogue ex-husband, Kyle Turner, knew where I was and was on his way to exact his revenge. Since then, the NSIB had started their undercover operation, using me as bait, hiding out in the Gossip Inn’s grounds, and waiting to ambush my ex.
Except he hadn’t showed up yet, and Special Agent in Charge Grant’s command was that I remain inside the inn’s grounds at all times.
That meant I had done nothing in Gossip, had gone nowhere in a month. The locals had started gossiping about me, for Pete’s sake.
The kitten foster center’s door opened, and my grandmother, dressed
