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Also by Bree Baker Seaside Café Mysteries Live and Let Chai No Good Tea Goes Unpunished Tide and Punishment A Call for Kelp Thank you for downloading this ! Sourcebooks eBook You are just one click away from… • Being the first to hear about author happenings • VIP deals and steals • Exclusive giveaways • Free bonus content • Early access to interactive activities • Sneak peeks at our newest titles Happy reading! CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP Books. Change. Lives. Copyright © 2020 by Bree Baker Cover and internal design © 2020 by Sourcebooks Cover illustration © Trish Cramblet/Lott and Associates, DRogatnev/Shutterstock Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. All brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. Sourcebooks is not associated with any product or vendor in this book. Published by Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410 (630) 961-3900 sourcebooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Baker, Bree, author. Title: A call for kelp / by Bree Baker. Description: Naperville, IL : Poisoned Pen Press, [2020] | Series: Seaside Café Mysteries ; book 4 Identifiers: LCCN 2019050887 | (paperback) Subjects: GSAFD: Mystery fiction. Classification: LCC PS3602.A5847 C35 2020 | DDC 813/.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050887 Contents Front Cover Title Page Copyright Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Recipes from Sun, Sand, and Tea Acknowledgments Excerpt from Live and Let Chai Chapter One About the Author Back Cover Chapter One “Hey, y’all!” I greeted the selfie mode on the cell phone poised in my outstretched arm. “This is Everly Swan, your trusty seaside iced tea shop owner and baking addict, signing on to try something new for you this morning.” Recording short instructional videos for my café’s website had become a weekly occurrence for me, and I was hoping to make things more exciting for my followers by getting out of the kitchen. “In case you haven’t heard, we’ve got something big going on in Charm today, and I thought you might enjoy an insider’s look at the hubbub.” I quickened my steps across Bay Street to the nature center, where most of my town and seemingly half the world population had gathered for a look at Mitzi Calgon, the pirate movie equivalent of Princess Leia. A warm ocean breeze tickled my neck and cheeks as I approached the crowd, and I hoped with enough editing the video would turn out okay. I’d never recorded anything beyond the walls of my historic Victorian, but it seemed like a good day to start. Considering that this was the first time in a long time that I’d done more than put my hair in a ponytail and dressed in anything fancier than cutoffs and flip-flops, it was worth a try. My beekeeping great-aunts had secured Mitzi Calgon’s support in a documentary to save the American honeybee, and she was in town today for a celebration luncheon. In other words, the perfect time to finally give viewers a look at the postcard-perfect world outside my front door.