Welcome to Pembroke Cove, where witches and murders are multiplying.
A fall festival, reading tea leaves and a few clues propel Lily into a new murder investigation.
Bookstore owner Lily Michaels still doesnât know which kind of witch sheâs going to be. Sheâs planning to read fortunes at her parentsâ tea booth at the Fall Festival in the small town of Pembroke Cove, Maine. Is that her gift? Her snarky familiar, Milo, isnât a lot of help. Lilyâs mother warned her that reading the leaves would change someoneâs life. Lilyâs ready to make some changes of her own. Her relationship with Detective Gage Eriksonâa.k.a. Detective Cutieâ seems to be stuck in the perpetual friend zone. Maybe itâs time she went on a real date with someone else, like the new guy in town, Dax Peters.
Gage would like nothing more than to go on a real date with Lily, but romance will have to take the back burner when heâs is called to investigate another murder. Someone cut short the life of successful rose grower, Dean Hartley. Since when does horticulture lead to homicide?
Gage would be thrilled if Lily stuck to reading tea leaves and stayed out of trouble, but thatâs just not in her puzzle-loving personality. Why were all the garden club members arguing with Dean at the festival? When Lily teams up with Gage once again in the race to resolve the rose-growerâs murder, can she continue to keep both her feelings and her magic a secret from Gage? Or will roses finally lead to romance for them?
Perfect for fans of cozy fantasy, talking cats, and magical murder mysteries.
Tea and Trouble is the third novel in A Book Store Cozy Mystery Series, although each book can be read as standalone. A funny cozy mystery with a guaranteed the culprit is caught. Happy reading!
Award-winning and best-selling author Lucinda Race is a lifelong fan of fiction. As a young girl, she spent hours reading mystery and romance novels and getting lost in the fun and hope they represent. While her friends dreamed of becoming doctors and engineers, her dreams were to become a writerâa novelist.
As life twisted and turned, she found herself writing nonfiction but longed to turn to her true passion. After developing the storyline for the McKenna Family Romance series, it was time to start living her dream. Her fingers practically fly over computer keys she weaves stories about with mystery and happily ever afters.
Lucinda lives with her two little dogs, a miniature long hair dachshund and a shitzu mix rescue, in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. When she's not at her day job, sheâs immersed in her fictional worlds. And if sheâs not writing mystery, suspense and romance novels, sheâs reading everything she can get her hands on.