Beatrix has spent a lifetime keeping magic safely theoretical and people at a careful distance—especially the niece she raised and the handful of friends she still claims. Visiting a quiet wine-country town for a winter solstice rite at her friend Elaine’s house, she expects nothing more than candlelight and company. Instead, a fellow modern witch is found dead in the koi pond.
The police call it a tragic slip. Beatrix knows better. When a second woman is killed, Beatrix must risk the fragile connection she still has to catch a killer.
As the hours tick down to Christmas, she’s left with one stark truth: at seventy-five, she may be running out of time to open herself to the divine, to real power… and to the people who matter the most.
Some winters refuse to stay theoretical.
They demand the witch.
Step into the cold, the crows, and the quiet magic of the novella Winter of the Witch—book four in the Mystery School series—and discover whether Beatrix will finally answer the call.
Kirsten Weiss writes page-turning paranormal and metaphysical mysteries, and now a Tarot guidebook that’s a work of experimental fiction. Her heroes and heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop.
Kirsten is best known for her Mystery School, Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum, and Tea & Tarot cozy mystery books. So if you like thoughtful, action-packed mysteries with complicated heroines, just turn the page…