Review: Mix Mystery with Romance and Add Magic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
A 52 year old aspiring baker and house cleaner for bank owned houses discovers a live person who gifts her with a mysterious box and then dies.  Soon after, at another house, she discovers a grave in the back yard.  Both discoveries require notifying the authorities and so she meets (and again) Deputy Sheriff Beau Cardwell who, apparently, is attracted to her.  She now involves herself in two mysteries and questions the possibility of a budding romance.  Although I question how many fifty year old women would go to the measures Sam does to find out the truth, I applaud her willingness to finalize her obsession.  A fun read mixing romance and mystery with a mature woman, I enjoyed reading this even with several hard to believe events and the unbelievable magic box.  This is a first of a series which may read better than its successors.