Metaphysical Magick has been the cozy anchor of Emberwick for four generations, offering a warm haven of lavender, beeswax, and hand-blended teas. But for pragmatic rune-reader Ruby Ansell, balancing the village’s spiritual accounts is about to become a matter of life and death.
When Greta Elyard, a meticulous auditor from the Northern Concord, arrives to investigate the breaking of an ancient crossroads binding, the town’s delicate “luck-matrix” unravels. Before the audit can even begin, Greta is found frozen to death in the historic founders’ cemetery. Posed in a perfect circle of her own shattered divination tools, a chilling message is written in unfrozen frost across her collarbones: THE DEBT TRANSFERS.
With a ruthless magical tribunal threatening to charge her family with the crime, Ruby has until Samhain midnight to balance the books and find the actual killer. Armed with her notebook and her grandmother’s runes, she tracks a ledger of suspects, including Constance Bale, a sweet-faced older woman who claims to be a grieving relative.
Ruby can’t solve this puzzle alone. To catch a killer who wields forgotten magic, she must team up with her divination witch sisters, Liora and Moira, and her teenage daughter Crystal.
And, of course, there are the cats. Because solving a murder in Emberwick takes a village… and three highly opinionated felines: Onyx, Star, and Java.
As the Samhain countdown ticks away, failing wards and spinning compasses warn that the town’s magic is being drained. Can the Ansell sisters unmask a killer and reverse a dark harvest ritual, or will Emberwick’s luck run out forever?
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