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.

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?

Sunbeam, Sunflowers, and Sabotage

A sweet tabby cat named Sunbeam.
A vandalized sunflower farm outside Austin.
A sinister plot lurking beneath the sunny Hill Country fields.

When distressed tabby Sunbeam arrives at Silver Circle Cat Rescue, Ellie and Evie Rockwell are immediately drawn to his sunny disposition and charming purr. But beneath his cheerful exterior, Sunbeam is heartbroken—his owner Marigold Taylor was mysteriously murdered at her beloved sunflower farm in the Texas Hill Country.

As Ellie and Evie dig deeper, they uncover a tangled web of jealousy, betrayal, and hidden agendas as twisted as a rattlesnake—but as they navigate the twisting rows of suspects and motives, Ellie and Evie find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer determined to keep their secrets buried under the Lone Star soil.

Can they expose the murderer before the sun sets on the farm—and their lives?

Owl Spell Broke Loose

Astra Arden never expected to find murder at a self-help festival organized by a secretive sect. But when an unexplained storm cuts off all communication with the mainland, she realizes she'd better solve it—and fast.

When Astra Arden agreed to join her best friend on a camping trip to a private tropical island, she had no idea what was in store. But when the four-day festival looks like it's run by a warring self-help cult, and the island seems to be claimed by a mysterious goddess with a hidden agenda, Astra soon finds herself in a whirlwind of intrigue and secret agendas that she can’t ignore.

As they try to make sense of the clues and solve the mystery, they realize that the danger is closer than they thought, and that someone on the island is determined to keep the truth hidden at any cost.

But with the stakes so high and the clock ticking down, will Astra and Archie be able to solve the mystery in time—or will they become the next victims?