A Tincture for Trouble

Second spring. First murder.

At fifty-eight, retired chemistry teacher Opal Greer has a brand-new divorce, her late aunt's herb shop in the North Carolina mountains, and a family secret that woke up the day the judge signed the papers. The Greer women are witches. Their magic wakes after menopause, and hers is wide awake.

Opal means to sell good tea to nice people and keep the rest quiet. Then, on reopening day, the man who planned to trash her shop in a speech climbs the gazebo steps, takes her Calm Nerves drops in front of half of Tansy Ridge and drops dead mid-sentence.

Now the sheriff keeps asking one more question than she'd like, the district attorney wants her in on Monday, and the whole town is calling her place "the witch shop." They aren't wrong about the witch part.

Luckily, Opal has a rude talking cat named Duchess, a best friend who brings lemon pound cake to every crisis, and thirty years of catching teenagers in lies.

How hard can one murderer be?

A Tincture for Trouble is Book 1 of the Second Spring Apothecary Mysteries: a clean, funny paranormal cozy mystery with no swearing, no gore and two recipes in the back. Perfect for readers who like their small towns nosy and their cats opinionated.