A Moonlit Mausoleum Mystery - Book 2
Inheriting a haunted cemetery wasn't on Magnolia Thorne's bingo card for her fresh start in small-town Louisiana.
When her eccentric great-aunt leaves her the Moonlit Mausoleum Cemetery—complete with a sentient cottage that broadcasts her emotions in Technicolor and a bad-tempered alligator with a marshmallow addiction—Magnolia thinks her biggest challenge will be mastering a lawn mower. She's wrong.
Dead wrong.
The cemetery is restless. Whispers drift from bootlegger tunnels beneath the grounds, and on the full moon, a devastatingly handsome ghost materializes in her kitchen with a century-old chip on his shoulder. Declan Gallagher, Prohibition-era bootlegger and certified grump, was murdered in 1927—and he's convinced Magnolia is his last chance at justice.
The problem? Everyone's been blaming the wrong killer for a hundred years.
As Magnolia digs into the past, she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches into Gravesend's most respected families. But someone in the present is desperate to keep history buried, and they'll do whatever it takes to stop a nosy cemetery keeper from disturbing the dead. With Sheriff Boone threatening to shut her down, the town's gossip brigade questioning her sanity, and Declan's spectral form literally coming apart at the seams, Magnolia must solve a murder, save her ghost, and somehow convince her rescue alligator that municipal property destruction is not the answer to every problem.
In Gravesend, Louisiana, the dead don't rest easy—and neither will you.
A delightfully spooky Southern Gothic tale where the sweet tea is cold, the casseroles are sacred, and true love might just transcend death itself.
A Moonlit Mausoleum Mystery - Book 1
When Magnolia "Maggie" Thorne arrives in Gravesend for her great-aunt’s funeral, the last thing she expects is to inherit a crumbling cemetery—and a cranky alligator.
Boudreaux, the cemetery’s scaly mascot, isn’t just sulking over tourists. He’s mourning his twin, Beau… who inconveniently refuses to stay buried. On the night of the full moon, Beau’s ghost rises from the bayou and insists his death wasn’t an accident.
Now Maggie's caught in her first Gravesend mystery, tangled up in gossiping townsfolk, restless spirits, and two very opinionated alligators. If she can’t solve the riddle of Beau’s demise before moonlight fades, the ghost gator may never find peace—and she may never survive her first week as caretaker of the Moonlit Mausoleum.
Quirky, spooky, and full of southern gothic charm, All Gators Go to Heaven is the perfect introduction to the Moonlit Mausoleum Mysteries—a series where the dead rise, the gators snap, and love refuses to rest.
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A Moonlit Mausoleum Christmas Mystery - Book 3
Christmas in Gravesend was never going to be quiet—but this year, the ghosts are caroling.
When an unseasonal freeze sweeps through Magnolia Thorne’s haunted cemetery, even her sentient cottage is shivering in shades of blue. The bayou’s turned to ice, spectral visitors are stirring, and a flapper ghost named Beverly insists Magnolia has three nights to solve a ninety-seven-year-old murder.
Beverly’s brother, Declan Gallagher—a gruff, century-old bootlegger ghost with an Irish accent and unfinished business—has one goal: set his sister’s spirit free before Christmas dawn. With Declan at her side, a psychic best friend brandishing mistletoe, and an alligator who’s claimed her kitchen as his new kingdom, Magnolia dives headfirst into a mystery buried beneath the frost.
But the deeper she digs, the colder the truth becomes—because someone in Gravesend is still guarding the secret that killed Beverly Gallagher on Christmas Eve, 1928.
Now Magnolia must outwit the living, face down dark magic, and stop a century-old curse before the stroke of midnight on Christmas morning.
In a town where the casseroles come with side helpings of gossip, the dead don’t rest easy, and love can cross even the Veil, Christmas is about to get hauntingly heartfelt.
A cozy Southern Gothic holiday mystery full of ghostly charm, small-town chaos, and just enough Christmas spirit to warm the grave.
Southern gothic meets cozy mystery—where the dead gossip, the gators bite, and love lingers past the grave.
A Moonlit Mausoleum Mystery – Book 4
A jazz singer’s ghost holds the key to betrayal, desire, and Declan Gallagher’s darkest secret…
Magnolia Thorne has survived haunted bayous, an alligator sidekick, gossiping ghosts, and a sentient cottage with the emotional stability of a Victorian widow—but nothing has prepared her for turning thirty. She’s hoping for a quiet week in her cemetery home, instead, beneath a moonlit Louisiana sky, a woman in sequins rises from a cracked crypt and starts singing.
Lila Devaux—Gravesend’s most glamorous 1920s jazz star—has been dead nearly a century, but she claims she knows the truth about Declan Gallagher’s final night.
Not the rumors.
Not the legend.
The truth.
And she wants Magnolia to help her settle a score.
Soon Maggie is pulled into hidden speakeasy tunnels, spectral jazz riffs that refuse to fade, and a bootlegging conspiracy stretching from the Roaring Twenties to today. Meanwhile, Declan—her favorite broody Irish bootlegger ghost—is becoming disturbingly solid. More present. More touchable. More heartbreakingly real.
And more determined than ever to keep his past buried.
As Lila’s haunting threatens to crack the Veil wide open, Magnolia must uncover what really happened the night Declan died… before Gravesend is overrun by restless spirits.
But solving the mystery may cost her the one thing she’s terrified to lose: the ghost she’s falling for.
On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Magnolia faces an impossible choice—bring peace to the woman who can expose everything, or protect the love she never expected.
In Gravesend, the ghosts sing… and some tunes can kill.
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