She can read the secrets left behind on old objects. Unfortunately, the dead man in her bookshop left far too many.
After eleven towns in nine years, Verity Lovett is tired of running from the strange ability she has spent her life hiding. When she inherits the Moonlight Bookshop, along with an opinionated black cat named Inkling, she hopes Silvermoon Creek might finally become home. Then the town’s most disliked historian is murdered in her nonfiction aisle.
The moment Verity touches the rare book beneath his hand, she sees fractured echoes of his final moments. The vision could reveal his killer, except her gift offers scattered images, emotions, and sounds instead of convenient names. Worse, the evidence points straight at her.
With Detective Sam Jennings watching her far too closely, Inkling leading her toward trouble, and half the town hiding reasons to hate the victim, Verity must uncover the truth buried inside a water-damaged ledger. Because someone has already killed to protect Silvermoon Creek’s history. And Verity may be next.
Murder at the Moonlight Bookshop features a psychic bookseller, an unusually clever cat, gentle magic, slow-burn romantic tension, and a charming small town where every secret leaves an echo.