The Spellshop's Lethal Ledger
A Cozy Fantasy Mystery

About this book:

When Clara Vance inherits her great-aunt's cozy spellshop, *The Copper Kettle*, she expects steaming tea, friendly neighbors, and the quiet satisfaction of brewing remedies for rheumatic knees. Instead, she inherits a ledger drowning in red ink, a foreclosure deadline in fourteen days, and a crimson invitation to the Winter Solstice Crucible—a clandestine, lethal tournament where alchemists and battle-mages fight for a ten-thousand-crown purse. Aunt Millicent didn't enter for glory; she was cornered. And now Clara has three days to turn a talent for archiving turnip measurements into a survival strategy.

With a judgmental ginger cat as her only employee and the neighborhood bookseller as her reluctant tutor, Clara digs through Millicent's secrets: vials of phoenix ash, payments to the shadowy Obsidian Syndicate, and a ledger entry scratched out in midnight ink—*Protect the shop.* But the Syndicate's collectors are already circling Cobblewick Lane, and something far older than debt is waking in the arena's black-stone pits. To save her shop, Clara must brew the impossible, outwit competitors who've killed for less, and decide how much of herself she's willing to risk in the fire.

*The Spellshop's Lethal Ledger* stirs a warm, witty mystery into a high-stakes magical competition—where the heroine fights not with fireballs, but with nerve, ingenuity, and the fierce love of a community that shows up with pickled walnuts and badger tea cozies when the night grows dark.