Burned at Both Ends: A Wick and Whisper Candle Shop Cozy Mystery (Book 2)

A fire alarm. A dead businessman. And a candle that should never have been there.

Clara Bell has finally begun to feel at home behind the counter of Wick and Whisper, her

small-town candle shop. Main Street is recovering from its last scandal, business is steady,

and Clara’s relationship with Noah Mercer is becoming harder to call merely friendship.

Then longtime merchant Martin Bellamy dies after a suspicious fire alarm sends half the

street into chaos.

At first, smoke seems like the obvious explanation. But Martin was poisoned before the

alarm ever sounded, and Clara recognizes the cedar-and-amber fragrance clinging to

evidence at the scene as one of her own blends.

Soon, a missing candle, a false receipt, copied keys, altered insurance records, and years of

hidden property deals reveal that Martin had uncovered a financial scheme stretching across

Main Street. Nearly everyone had a reason to want him silent.

As someone begins destroying the remaining evidence, Clara realizes the killer did more

than commit murder.

They rewrote Martin’s final hour.

Now Clara must separate the real timeline from the one deliberately created to mislead

investigators before the person who turned fire, wax, and secrets into weapons decides

there is one witness too many.

A warm, clue-filled small-town cozy mystery featuring a candle-shop sleuth, buried financial

secrets, found family, light romance, and a fair-play solution.