The Stitching Hour

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The Stitching Hour is the ninth book in the An Embroidery Mystery series.

Marcy Singer is looking forward to celebrating the first anniversary of her embroidery shop, The Seven-Year Stitch. Then finds out the vacant store next door has been rented to Claude and Priscilla Atwood, who plan on opening The Horror Emporium. She is trying to get out of her mind how all the screaming coming from the building will effect her business and also the classes she teaches in the evening.

The Atwood's are a strange couple, as is their usual apparel. .They are planning a party for business owners in the area in an attempt to calm any fears those people might hat about the Horror Emporium. They have arranged for Sadie and Blake MacKenzie's Mocha's to

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