A happy engagement, a new neighborhood....and a dead body for a welcome!Marionette,a French-American art shop owner in Savannah, Georgia, has justrecently become engaged to the love of her life, Thomas - aScottish-American gentleman.During a block party in theirsoon-to-be neighborhood, Marionette and Thomas meet a number of unsavorycharacters, including an elderly woman referred to by everyone asNa-Na, whose notorious anti-immigrant attitude leaves Marionette feelingfrightfully unwelcome.When Na-Na is murdered on theirproperty, Marionette sets out to discover if the killer was reallytargeting Na-Na or if they had potentially failed in laying a trap forMarionette and Thomas!New Beginnings & Murder is a newspin off series from the Sweet Treats mysteries, which now followsMarionette - Molly Jenn's shop-neighbor, the feisty doll-maker!