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’s spent her life hiding. When a great-aunt she barely knew leaves her the Moonlight Bookshop, Verity hopes the charming shop, the opinionated black cat who comes with it, and the autumn-painted streets of Silvermoon Creek might finally offer her somewhere to belong.

Then the town’s most disliked historian is found murdered in her nonfiction aisle.

His hand rests on a rare book he was desperate to find, and the moment Verity touches it, she experiences the fractured echoes of his final moments. The vision could reveal his killer, except her gift offers emotions, sounds, and scattered images rather than convenient names. Worse, the evidence places Verity at the center of the crime, and the handsome, frustratingly observant Detective Sam Jennings has begun asking questions she can’t answer without exposing her secret.

With Inkling pointing his paws toward trouble and half the town hiding grudges against the victim, Verity must sort through feuding families, academic rivals, charming liars, and a scandal buried beneath Silvermoon Creek’s carefully polished history.

Because the murderer is still searching for something inside the Moonlight Bookshop.

And the next story silenced may be Verity’s own.

Murder at the Moonlight Bookshop features a psychic bookseller, an unusually clever cat, gentle magic, slow-burn romantic tension, bookish clues, and a charming small town where every secret leaves an echo.

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