The Tea Witch's Shadowed Customer

About this book:

In the mist-cloaked village of Oakhaven, Morwenna Gray brews more than chamomile and valerian—she brews quiet solutions for troubled bodies and louder secrets. Her days follow the steady rhythm of herbs and hearth until a gold sovereign clinks across her counter, paid by a stranger who moves like a shadow and drinks her deadliest draughts without flinching. He calls himself Jack. He carries no banner, bears a scar he won't explain, and slips through her wards as if they were cobwebs. By the time the vesper bell tolls, the King's riders are combing the valley for men who leave no footprints, and Morwenna's ordinary Friday has vanished into steam.

What begins as a single suspicious cup spirals into a maze of warrants without names, a loft that isn't empty, and a clerk who trembles at the mention of shadows. Morwenna has spent her life reading leaves, not politics—but the longer Jack lingers in her doorway, the clearer it becomes that the village's sleepy peace was never more than a thin crust over something old and hungry. Her grandmother's knife weighs heavy in her apron pocket. The wolfsbane jar waits in the locked cabinet. And every chapter turns the screw tighter, from nightshade in the teacup to daggers drawn in the rain.

Atmospheric, sharp-witted, and steeped in the kind of magic that smells of damp moss and copper kettles, *The Tea Witch's Shadowed Customer* is a cozy mystery with teeth. Perfect for readers who like their heroines practical, their strangers dangerous, and their secrets served piping hot—one chapter at a time, until the last dregs reveal a truth that could burn the valley down.