Book Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery

The Paranormal Cozy Mystery genre blends the charming, small-town atmosphere of cozy mysteries with elements of the supernatural and paranormal. In these stories, amateur sleuths often possess psychic abilities, interact with ghosts, or encounter otherworldly beings while solving lighthearted whodunits. The genre maintains the traditional cozy mystery’s focus on community, interpersonal relationships, and lack of explicit content, while introducing an intriguing and magical twist to the narrative, making it a delightful escape for readers seeking a blend of mystery and fantasy.

Bring Your Beach Owl

When Astra Arden and her sisters head to the Florida coast for a relaxing spring break, they expect to be knee-deep in warm ocean waves—not a murder investigation.

When Astra takes herself and her witchy sisters to the coast for a much-needed break, she expects nothing more than a relaxing holiday. But when their cousin Amelia washes up on the beach dead, she knows there's more to the story than the police are letting on.

With shape-shifting fish lurking around every corner and a sassy mermaid's secrets churning beneath the pier, Astra has to jump in and protect her sisters while investigating Amelia's mysterious death—a wild ride that leads the police to point the finger straigt at the Arden sisters.

Will they be able to prove their innocence in time? Or will they succumb to the depths below?

Go for the Juggler

A jarring homecoming.
An uncertain fate.
To save everyone, one witch must perform the juggling act of a lifetime.

When Charlotte returns home with Gunther, Devana, and Ethel Elkins in tow, she doesn’t think her life can get any more complicated. But when one of her parents’ Animal Shelter volunteers turns up dead, her control begins to slip as her old human life and her new paranormal life collide.

While racing to come up with a plan to defeat the Witches’ Council, Charlotte must defend her family against an intrusive police investigation that risks exposing their true nature to the human world—an act which will condemn them all.

Fluffy, Flip Flops, and Foul Play

A Scottish Fold kitten found alone on the beach.
A solitary flip flop washed ashore.
A missing owner and a mystery on the lake.

When a bedraggled Scottish Fold kitten named Fluffy is brought to Silver Circle Rescue clinging to a lone black flip flop, Ellie Rockwell senses there may be more to the situation than meets the eye. Her suspicion is confirmed when the kitten nervously pleads for assistance in locating her owner Lisa, who, according to him, vanished during a swim at the lake.

As Ellie looks into the kitten’s previous life, she quickly finds that the missing Lisa, while well-liked, was hiding some dark secrets beneath her sunny exterior—secrets that may have led to her untimely end in the placid lake.

With Fluffy nudging her along, Ellie dives into the mystery behind the missing woman and the solitary sandal on the lakeshore—but can Ellie stay afloat long enough to crack the case? Or will she end up in too deep?

Against Owl Odds

When the star card glows in the direction of a vampire, Astra wonders how she's supposed to stop him from dying—since he's already dead.

Astra Arden is a witch with a knack for rescuing folks from precarious predicaments. But when the star card flips over for an obnoxiously rude and dedicatedly evil vampire at a local fundraiser, Astra thinks the goddess may be off her divine rocker.

The mandate is complicated further when another vampire is discovered dead outside Sanguine, the local vampire club where the fundraiser was held—which just happens to be owned by Astra's best friend's brother, vampire Rex Sullivan.

Astra must unravel the secrets of Central Florida's vampire population in order to get to the bottom of the murder. Secrets the vampires definitely don't want brought into the light.

Will Astra be able to solve the case and catch the killer, or will the mystery remain as elusive as a rare blood type?

Irrelephant Omens

Another poisoned ringmaster.
Colliding portents.
As dark forces gather, one witch must break the circus free of fate before destiny destroys them all.

Charlotte is at the end of her tether. With her best friend lecturing her about the past, a mysterious old woman demanding she comply with the future, and signs everywhere pointing in opposite directions, she’s not sure how her argumentative band of misfit carnies will be able to defeat the Witches’ Council.

When her boyfriend’s father, the only other magical Ringmaster, is found unconscious, Charlotte determines that she must unravel the mystery, protect the rival circus and save the cantankerous man–only to be told that to do so would defy the omens that say his death must take place.

Will Charlotte rebel and save the dying Ringmaster? Or will she let the rival circus fall and her boyfriend’s father die?