Tomie de Paola's first story featuring his beloved Strega Nona character, who began life in the 1970s as a doodle, and was the perfect creation for his Italianized retelling of Der süße Brei, Grimm's Fairy Tales, number 103. Der süße Brei, or The sweet porridge, is better known in English as The magic porridge pot. When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

How can he clear her name if she can't even remember it? Caroline McAllister's blood-stained clothes and fractured memories suggest guilt. Deputy John Graystone vows to prove otherwise. But Caroline's therapy isn't the exoneration John hopes for, and despite his best efforts, the evidence grows overwhelming until a stalker arrives on the scene shooting from the shadows and leaving terrifying notes. Is John protecting-and falling for-an amnesiac victim...

Separated at birth...and determined to become a family. "She looks like me!" When her orphaned niece utters those words, Kelsey Harris is shocked--not only that Morgan has a long-lost twin but that the grieving five-year-old spoke at all. Overjoyed by Morgan and Mia's instant connection, Kelsey and Zach Johnson, Mia's widowed adoptive father, agree to be friends--and only friends. But can they ignore their growing feelings when the matchmaking sisters...

A text from her estranged sister brings Jackie Burkholdt home ... to find her family has disappeared. If terrified Charla has come to harm, Jackie suspects Eli Pitts, her sister's ex-husband. But her distrust soon turns to attraction to the rugged rancher. As Jackie and Eli team up to track their missing loved ones, she must not only risk her life, but her growing feelings for the one man who's totally off-limits.