Winter of the Witch​​
A solstice ritual, a body in the koi pond… and one 75-year-old scholar forced to practice what she’s only ever preached.
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Beatrix Marzanna 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.
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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.
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Some winters refuse to stay theoretical.
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They demand the witch.
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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.
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Coming October 31, 2026.
Refuge of the Witch​​
She sought silence. The desert whispered back.
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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.
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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.
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Coming February, 16 2027
