Hawthorne Reach Echo Mysteries · Book 2
Not the First Owner
A Midlife Witch Paranormal Cozy Mystery
A house full of family history. A mirror with more than one story. A murder that makes every document matter.
An apparently ordinary downsizing job takes Cora Whitcomb to North Bluff, where a missing silver-backed hand mirror connects the Cale house to an old entry in Nell’s Blue Ledger: NOT THE FIRST OWNER.
The Case
Ownership is not the same as truth.
The mirror’s provenance is layered. The Echoes are incomplete. Family memory keeps tempting everyone toward the easiest explanation.
Then surveyor Leonard Pryce is murdered, and a decades-old access dispute turns an estate file into part of a homicide investigation. Cora’s training tells her documents need context. Her new ability tells her something happened. Neither tells her whose memory she is hearing.
To get the truth, she has to separate possession from ownership, memory from evidence, and the story attached to an object from what can actually be proved.
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