Grave Mistake

Selena Marx practices hedgewitchery without formal training, reading tarot and offering divination to anxious clients in West Los Angeles, among them worried homemakers, attorneys, and hopeful actresses. Her main problem is Lucien Dumond, who runs the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers' Guild and wants her to join the crowd of devoted followers around him. Selena has no interest in him, but refusing Lucien has a price. After he threatens to bind her feet in enchanted concrete and send her into the Pacific from Santa Monica Pier, her cards direct her to Globe, Arizona, where she plans a fresh start with a new home, a new shop, and a cat that carries a curse.

Just as Selena begins to fit in and get to know the townspeople, Lucien tracks her down and then vanishes. His body is later found on tribal land, so the case falls to Calvin Standingbear, chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police, who starts with Selena. When one of Lucien's acolytes is also killed, signs of dark magic and warnings from the spirits push Selena and Calvin to solve the crimes before more harm comes.

This is the first book in the Hedgewitch for Hire series, which continues with Social Medium, released March 31, 2021. A romance develops slowly across the series, while each novel is a self-contained mystery that ends without a cliffhanger.