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 thought she'd found all her father's secrets.
She was off by one.

With the legal battle behind her and her family tree finally making sense, Fortuna is settling into something almost resembling normalcy. She's training a promising new psychic, her vampire husband is back from Virginia, and Main Street is blissfully boring -- until the mysterious selenite key she found alongside the deed opens a hidden vault in her own headquarters.

Inside: documents proving that Mystwich Hollow wasn't founded by seven families. It was founded by eight. The eighth -- the Colliers -- were erased from the records after they became vampires, and the town's anti-vampire sentiment isn't old-fashioned prejudice. It's a cover story.

Now Fortuna is staring down a prophecy etched in crystal, a senior coven elder who's known the truth for years, a petition calling her husband a threat to public safety, and a town doctor with clinical records that rewrite everything she thought she knew about Mystwich Hollow's founding.

The founding families buried the Colliers. Fortuna just dug them up. And this time, the whole town gets a vote.

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?