The twenty-second installment in the Zoe Donovan Story is broken into two parts. Part one is a full length cozy mystery titled Candy Cane Caper. Part two is a free reprint of the novella Zimmerman Academy New Beginnings which is no longer in print.In Candy Cane Caper things go from crazy to insane in the Zimmerman household when Scooter's dad comes to town, Zoe tries to find the perfect gift for Zak while helping out with Hometown Christmas, and Levi finds the body of bakeshop owner Candy Kane dead in the pantry. It's funny, it's family, it's a Zak and Zoe Christmas mystery.New beginnings: This story is told from Zimmerman Academy principal Phyllis King's point of view. This edition has two parts. The first part are all the Zimmerman Academy shorts as narrated by Phyllis which were included in the Zoe Donovan books: Hopscotch homicide, Ghostly graveyard, and Santa sleuth. Part two of the book is a new short story titled the Birthday mystery. This story takes place on Phyllis's sixty-third birthday. She is planning a quiet evening at home, much like the sort of evening she has spend on her previous birthdays, when Hazel Hampton (the town librarian), Ethan Carlton (Zimmerman Academy history professor), and Luke Donovan (Zoe's grandpa and Hazel's boyfriend) pull her into a birthday mystery.