November 1, 2023
Shop owner Shayleigh Myers continues to defend her legacy against threats worldly and otherworldly. Shay never knew her mother, Bridget Early, but she received two precious gifts from her: Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, a tea shop in Bray Harbor, California, and an amulet containing a mysterious blue stone. The first she runs as a means of making a living and sharing her mother's herbal healing secrets with her neighbors. The second she wears on a cord around her neck, showing it only to a select number of family members and friends. Now Peter Graham is threatening to ruin Shay's business with a lawsuit accusing her of indoctrinating his teenage daughter, Tassi, into the practice of witchcraft through Tassi's part-time job at CuriosiTEAS. In the meantime, Shay's neighbor Liam Madigan alerts her to the possibility of a messenger sent from the old country who has his eye on her amulet. Liam's Gran, recently relocated to Bray Harbor from Ireland, has a wealth of information about Shay's lineage, though she parcels it out sparingly for fear of overwhelming Shay with too-powerful knowledge of her ancestors' association with seers and fairies. While Shay is intrigued by Gran's folk wisdom, she has a more pedestrian task ahead of her: finding out who poisoned Peter's girlfriend, Jasmine Massey, before the police charge Tassi with the crime. For readers who like their whodunits with a supernatural twist.
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