Old Flames

When a family friend is murdered, it falls to Rowen Greensmith to crack the case. The whole family is upset, and why shouldn't they be? In Lainswich, a friend of the Greensmiths is a rare thing indeed. They like to keep as many of those in the land of the living as possible. On the other hand, they have plenty of enemies. They could certainly do with one less of those when a Stonewell shows up in town. The Stonewells have always been the natural enemies of the Greensmiths. They're another family of witches, one that moved away from Lainswich quite some time ago. So what are they doing back now? Worse than that, Flint Stonewell is an old flame of Rowen's. Surely he's only here to make her life more complicated. It's like he can just sense the fact that she and her husband have been bickering over the most minor things lately. Now she has to worry about mending her relationship on top of solving a murder. And that's only if she can keep the rest of her family from killing Flint first. Rowen will count herself lucky if she makes it to the other side of this one. Solve a murder, try to right a family feud that goes back generations, repair her marriage, and oh yeah, find the guardian spirits that have decided to up and abandon her family at, perhaps, the worst possible time. Work is just never done when you're a Greensmith witch. Ninth Volume of the Lainswich Witches Mystery Series. Approx. 50,000 words in length. It is a standalone (reading prior or future volumes not required to enjoy the book, no cliffhanger).