"Charlie's Secrets" is a finalist in the Cozy Mystery category of the 2025 Daphne du Maurier awards for Mystery/Suspense books. Mac, with Ivy's assistance, usually writes quirky articles about everything from a frog race to a garlic festival for a travel magazine, but now they've been hired to write a woman's memoirs for a rather nice sum. Except these memoirs turn out to be a high-powered expose of the woman's three prominent and well-known husbands,. and each of those ex's is desperate to keep his past misdeeds from showing up in print. What will they do to stop the memoirs? Bribe, threaten ... or murder? And now Ivy and Mac know The Wife's dangerous secrets too.