Refuge of the Witch
She sought silence. The desert whispered back.
After losing her career and her purpose, Liz flees to the isolated town of Crimson Ridge, desperate for solitude. But the desert has other plans. When she stumbles upon a mysterious wolf refuge and the body of a stranger, her quiet retreat spirals into a labyrinth of secrets. The refuge’s residents are not what they seem, and the land itself hums with an eerie, ancient power.
As Liz peels back the layers of the refuge’s past, the line between reality and magic blurs. The wolves are more than animals. The people are more than they appear. And the desert guards its mysteries like a witch guards her grimoire.
The deeper she goes, the more she risks losing herself—or uncovering a truth that could shatter the fragile new world she’s only just begun to call home.
Coming February, 16 2027
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Ellie and the Secret Staircase
You remember the girl detective. The roadster, the flashlight, the mansion with the secret staircase.
This amateur detective had great-grandkids. They call her Nan.
Ellie and the Secret Staircase is a modern retelling of the 1930 public-domain edition of The Hidden Staircase. Same mansion. Same staircase. New sleuth. Considerably less patience.
Ellie Drew expects a tidy puzzle when two sisters call about odd sounds in their Civil War-era mansion. What she finds is no electricity, no cell service, an organ grinder’s monkey, and a house that seems to have her back for reasons of its own.
Then her grandson Carter disappears, and her best clue is the house itself.
Ellie has always trusted the pull of her hunches — Kairos, she calls it, and it’s never once steered her wrong. Now, Ellie is done playing nice with a mansion that may be haunted, or worse. Will her hunches bring Carter home, or will the staircase keep its final secret?
Ellie and the Secret Staircase is the first Ellie Drew Mystery. Cozy doesn't mean harmless.
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