As the Grimoire Pages Turn: a Murder, She Witches Mystery

Nothing ruins a bookstore’s grand opening quite like finding your featured author dead in the reading nook. Especially when she’s cursed the building on her way out.Octavia Grimstone’s dream of running the Three Witches Bookstore turns into a nightmare faster than you can say “bestseller.” When a serial memoirist drops dead during her book signing, she leaves behind more than just disappointed fans. The vengeful witch has cursed their beloved store, turning it into a supernatural house of strangeness where books chase customers and cobwebs multiply like gossip at a witch gathering.With her business partners suddenly looking like prime suspects and a curse threatening every author in Grimstone Grove, Octavia’s cozy mystery writing skills are about to get a real-world test.The investigation takes an intriguing turn when the town’s devastatingly handsome witch doctor arrives to examine the body. He’s also Octavia’s college ex, making their reunion awkward in all the best and worst ways. Together with Elzadora, their sarcastic centuries-old familiar who dispenses criticism instead of comfort, they uncover the author’s dirty secret: she’d been stealing life stories from fellow witches and publishing them as her own memoirs.Someone wanted those stolen tales back, and they were willing to commit murder to get them.Between dodging strange spells and navigating her rekindled feelings for the witch doctor, Octavia discovers that in a town where everyone has secrets, the most lethal enemies are often the ones closest to home.