A wellness retreat for the magically exhausted.
A guru floating in a sensory tank.
A "relaxing" weekend that’s anything but zen.

After fighting an elf for the soul of her sister, Astra Arden is ready for a nap. Her sister Althea, fresh from a dimensional kidnapping, needs serious R&R. The solution? A girls' weekend at Serenity Springs. It’s supposed to be all lavender mists, crystal grids, and silence... until that silence is shattered by a scream.

When the retreat’s charismatic guru is found floating face-down in a sensory deprivation tank, the "no stress" policy is officially void. Trapped behind wards that dampen their magic to ensure "deep healing," Astra and her sisters must root out a killer among the zen-obsessed guests without their usual powers.

With Lothian trying to smuggle in contraband caffeine and Archie engaging in a turf war with the retreat’s peacock mascot, Astra has to find the truth before her relaxing getaway becomes a permanent vacation.

Fortuna Delphi-Trevino's ghost dog has been staring at a wall for three weeks.
There's something behind it.

Behind a sealed door in the Great Hall, Fortuna discovers a vault that doesn't match anything in Mystwich Hollow's records. The coven's founding symbol has seven points. This one has eight. And the senior coven member who should be the most alarmed by the discovery doesn't seem surprised at all.

The moment Fortuna starts asking questions, a petition to exile her vampire husband explodes across town—because nothing buries an investigation like a political crisis. Someone is pulling strings to keep her away from the vault, and the founding families are closing ranks fast.

Fortuna's telepathy can read what people are thinking, but it's the things they've stopped thinking about that scare her.

A battle-scarred tomcat with trust issues.
A pitmaster found dead beside his smoker.
A stray colony hiding secrets hotter than a Texas summer.

Summer has Tablerock, Texas in a stranglehold. With triple-digit heat baking Wildebridge County and Silver Circle Cat Rescue's air conditioning wheezing its last, Ellie Rockwell-Rogers has her hands full managing a recently discovered feral colony on the outskirts of town—a scrappy band of strays led by Scruffy, a thick-cheeked tomcat who trusts humans about as far as he can spit a hairball.

But when Hank Dawson, Tablerock's legendary pitmaster and owner of Dawson's Low & Slow BBQ, is found dead beside his prize smoker the morning of the town's annual Smoke, Sizzle & Sweat BBQ Cook-Off, the colony's territory becomes the center of a murder investigation. Scruffy knows more than he's letting on—but getting a feral tom to talk, even with the help of Silver Circle's magical crystals, is like pulling bark off a live oak.

As Ellie and the gang dig into the smoky underbelly of Tablerock's fiercely competitive barbecue scene, they discover that rivalries over rubs and recipes can cut deeper than a brisket knife—and someone's willing to kill to keep their secrets off the menu.

Can Ellie earn Scruffy's trust and crack the case before the killer fires up again, or will the truth go up in smoke?