The Ingredients of Happiness

Is there a recipe for the perfect life?

Thirty-two-year-old ’happiness guru’ Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there’s a problem. Cooper isn’t happy.

Of course, it doesn’t help that she’s facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could cost her everything, or that her new book has irritated the department chairman, who assigns her to co-lead a happiness group at the New Haven Library.

As her friendship with the other women in the group flourishes, Cooper finds herself questioning her choices. Forced to face a life-changing betrayal and her own traumatic past, can she navigate a path to happiness with the help of a gargoyle’s wisdom?

Lucy Burdette is the author of the popular Key West Food Critic mystery series. Her standalone thriller, Unsafe Haven, is also published by Severn House. Lucy’s alter-ego, clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib, has published eight mysteries including the Golf Lover’s mystery series and the Advice Column mysteries. Lucy’s books and stories have been shortlisted for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. The Key Lime Crime won the bronze medal for popular fiction from the Florida Book Awards. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, a past president of Sisters in Crime, and currently serves as the president of the Friends of the Key West Library.