Moonlight Murder Mystery Club: Shadows Warning (Book 4 of 5)

Some questions get journalists killed. Diana Mercer's were about land deals.

When a freelance writer researching Crescent Harbor's "revitalization story" is found dead in her rental cottage two days before Christmas, the police call it a break-in gone wrong. Sage Holloway calls it something worse—because Diana walked into her bakery asking about property transfers, and the questions she was asking sounded a lot like the ones Sage has been whispering to herself since autumn.

The trail leads to an out-of-town investor with a crumbling alibi and a history of deals that go dirty. But Diana didn't find him on her own. Someone slipped her an unsigned note. Someone with deep roots, old connections, and the kind of local knowledge that doesn't come from research.

It comes from running the town for forty years.

Now Sage is sitting across from the most dangerous woman she's ever met, asking a question no one has asked in four decades. The answer comes wrapped in hypotheticals, delivered with genuine warmth, and followed by a smile that could be fondness or a threat—or both.

You're the first person in forty years clever enough to see it.

The icy steps were a warning. The fractured friendships are the cost. And the black cat who screamed in the dark is the only reason Sage is still standing.

In Crescent Harbor, the gingerbread is lying, the loyalties are cracking, and some games don't end when you learn the truth. They're just getting started.