To the Tomb Buried Deep: A Murder, She Witches Mystery
By Kat McGee
When the books refuse to balance, a mysterious treasure map seems like the perfect solution. Until it leads to a skeleton with a story to tell.
Author Octavia Grimstone is facing a plot twist she can’t write her way out of. Her magical bookstore, co-owned with her two best friends, is failing faster than a first-year witch’s levitation spell. With bills piling up like unshelved encyclopedias, their financial future looks grimmer than a banshee’s smile.
Just when all seems lost, a mysterious map appears, promising a legendary local treasure. But their hopes for a financial windfall are shattered when the map leads them not to gold, but to the skeletal remains of Bartholomew “Digger” Blackwood, a treasure hunter who vanished decades ago. Suddenly, their money problems are overshadowed by a murder mystery that’s been cold for years.
With her sarcastic feline familiar, Elzadora, offering witty commentary and the charming town doctor, Cassius Morgenthrall, providing steadfast support, Octavia must navigate a cast of quirky suspects. From a rival treasure hunter with a grudge to a prickly historian with secrets of her own, everyone in Grimstone Grove seems to have a connection to the lost treasure, and a motive for keeping its secrets buried.
To save her bookstore, Octavia will have to dig up the truth, even if it means uncovering a history that some people would kill to keep hidden.
When the books refuse to balance, a mysterious treasure map seems like the perfect solution. Until it leads to a skeleton with a story to tell.
Author Octavia Grimstone is facing a plot twist she can’t write her way out of. Her magical bookstore, co-owned with her two best friends, is failing faster than a first-year witch’s levitation spell. With bills piling up like unshelved encyclopedias, their financial future looks grimmer than a banshee’s smile.
Just when all seems lost, a mysterious map appears, promising a legendary local treasure. But their hopes for a financial windfall are shattered when the map leads them not to gold, but to the skeletal remains of Bartholomew “Digger” Blackwood, a treasure hunter who vanished decades ago. Suddenly, their money problems are overshadowed by a murder mystery that’s been cold for years.
With her sarcastic feline familiar, Elzadora, offering witty commentary and the charming town doctor, Cassius Morgenthrall, providing steadfast support, Octavia must navigate a cast of quirky suspects. From a rival treasure hunter with a grudge to a prickly historian with secrets of her own, everyone in Grimstone Grove seems to have a connection to the lost treasure, and a motive for keeping its secrets buried.
To save her bookstore, Octavia will have to dig up the truth, even if it means uncovering a history that some people would kill to keep hidden.