Do you remember the Christmas story about the chain-rattling ghosts who taught life lessons? Well, how about a Yule tale involving a beachfront mansion, multiple Greek gods, an Orphic priest, and a kidnapped divine panther?
It's my first Yule at Mom's in fifteen years, and she can't stop complaining about that. (That I hadn't shown up for fifteen years, not that I was there.) It doesn't make much of an impact, though-I have a great job as a psychic consultant with the Forkbridge Police Department, the "goddess" has been leaving me alone with no sparkly star cards in sight, and my family-including the persnickety owl, Archie-and I are getting along. For the most part. It appears that my holiday vacation will be uneventful until a Dionysian priest arrives on the Arden doorstep to report that the Greek god's favorite panther has vanished. Worse, the god accuses his sister, Athena, of the prank-and blames the priest for assisting her. Their divine argument threatens to derail our holiday festivities-and even the Orphic's life. The absolute worst? I don't believe in any of this "gods" bunk, but Detective Emma Sullivan never met a mystery she didn't want to solve-unfortunately, this one may be far more than she bargained for. The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues-but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.