Fair-play investigation
Timelines, archived documents, access routes, invoices, photographs, and corroboration carry the case—not supernatural certainty.
Next Release · Pre-order Now · September 24, 2026
The Room No One Claimed
A Midlife Witch Paranormal Cozy Mystery
A room without a clean history. A brass return-key tag touched by more than one life. A murder someone meant to keep inside the records.
Cora Whitcomb knows better than to treat an Echo as proof. But when an estate job opens a room layered with first names, unmatched belongings, and a history no one can explain cleanly, even careful inventory begins to feel like testimony.
Pre-order now on Amazon.com. Releases September 24, 2026.
The Case
A private room becomes public evidence.
At the Vickery estate, a rear room carries the residue of years of quiet, temporary use: first-name tags, mixed belongings, and a brass tag stamped RETURN KEY. When Cora touches it, the Echo does not give her a person. It gives her several hands—and several different emotions.
Then a murder pulls the room’s history into an investigation involving old property documentation, concealed identities, private photographs, blackmail, and records that were never meant to tell the whole story at once.
Cora and Lila have to do what Hawthorne Reach demands of them: document before interpreting, separate access from guilt, and refuse to let an impossible impression become an easy answer.
What to Expect
A mystery about privacy, provenance, and the danger of assuming a story too soon.
Estate-work mystery
The investigation grows directly out of Cora’s professional world: rooms, belongings, inventory, provenance, restricted records, and competing claims.
Echoes with limits
The brass tag remembers touch and emotion, not names, motives, or guilt. Cora still has to prove what happened.
Book Four continuity
The murder stands alone while Cora, Lila, Moss, and Hawthorne Reach continue to deepen for readers following the series in order.
Book 4 · Pre-order Now · Releases September 24
Continue to Cora’s next case in Hawthorne Reach.
The Room No One Claimed is available to pre-order as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.com and releases September 24, 2026.
From the Journal
The ideas behind Book Four.
EvidenceWhy Old Objects Make Such Good Mystery Clues
How ownership, provenance, wear, and ordinary handling complicate what an object seems to say.
Psychic cluesPsychometry in Mystery FictionWhy object impressions work best when they remain partial, fallible, and open to interpretation.
Old house mysteryWhy Hidden Rooms Make Great Mystery FictionFloor plans, access, keys, photographs, and the gap between a building and its recorded history.