Magic is real. Mysteries are deadly. Familiars tell no lies.
Welcome to Crabapple Bend, Oregon—a charming coastal town where ward-stones hum beneath the streets, harbor tides carry magic, and everyone practices witchcraft.
When forty-eight-year-old Teddy Vane inherits her aunt’s seaside cottage, she expects paperwork and probate—not a rare psychometric gift and a sharp-tongued hedgehog familiar with strong opinions about everything.
On her first day in town, Teddy bonds with Quill.
On her second day, someone is murdered.
The police call it an accident. Teddy’s new ability—the power to read the history embedded in objects—tells her otherwise. Something valuable was stolen. Something dangerous.
And the town’s 200-year-old magical Binding may be unraveling.
