Excerpt from Double Booked

A Farce in Three Acts by Callum Wry

The worn couch sighs. The reception bell leans like it’s keeping secrets. Muffins—scorched but strangely hopeful—wait on the coffee table.
Janet Harper, already on her third crisis before breakfast, answers a call about Egyptian-cotton sheets while her brother Miles slides the entire muffin tray toward the broiler “for ambition.”

MILES
Correction: I’m both your brother and your employee. That means double the excuses and half the work.

JANET
From Greg? The one he just swiped from the coffee table tray? Gross!

MILES
And we don’t know who they are. They book under fake names and then write scathing reviews that destroy small businesses in a single blog post.

Enter Veronica Vance, a lifestyle influencer with diva energy, and Norman Albright, a mysteriously polite guest who might—or might not—be the dreaded Mystery Blogger. As muffins combust and the resident cat Greg runs his own political campaign, Harper’s Haven B&B slides from morning rush to full-scale comic chaos.