Baked in Lammas

Reluctant witch and tea-shop owner Nora Wren has seventy-two hours to catch the killer who poisoned Bramble Bay's community oven, or every enchanted stove-sigil in town goes dark for a generation.

Six weeks after solving her aunt's murder, Nora is judging the Lammas Fair bread competition when reigning champion Amos Tremaine collapses at the first memory-offering with a tear-shaped sigil burned into his palm. Someone tampered with the hearth-anchor that holds 133 years of shared meals, and the oven is souring in real time.

Only a Senior Keeper can read the anchor. The Senior Keeper's chair is empty. The Circle is looking at Nora, still telling herself she has not fully chosen Bramble Bay.

A rival baker has lost seven years running. The town's bread already tastes wrong. By Monday at five o'clock, the Fair's closing bell, the anchor must be re-sealed or the bread-magic dies for a generation.

Baked in Lammas is Book 2 of the Green Kettle Mysteries, a paranormal cozy where the magic is civic, the bread is real, and the clock won't wait.

Book 2 of six. One witch. Three days. Wear a sweater - there's a storm on Harbor Lane.