Soul Requiem

Elise Moreau returns to the fog-wrapped village of Memoire-Rose to settle her grandmother's estate - and finds a house that, according to every official map, was never built.

A note hidden behind a picture frame sends her chasing a lane that doesn't exist, a childhood friend who vanished twenty years ago on Lantern Night, and a village archive that has been quietly rewriting its own history. Between a suspiciously tidy archivist, a florist who flinches at the word "house," and an extremely opinionated orange cat named Biscuit who keeps finding the evidence before anyone else does, Elise starts pulling threads that lead straight back to her own family.

Someone erased Violet Lane from the record twenty years ago. Someone is still erasing things now. And as the village's Lantern Night approaches again, Elise must gather twelve witnesses, one impossible cat, and the truth her grandmother died protecting - before the past finishes disappearing for good.

A gentle, atmospheric mystery for readers who love a cozy village, a clever cat, and a conspiracy with real teeth.