num_pages: 214
description:  When you pull up stakes make sure you dont get stabbed in the back.Self-taught in the arcane arts hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles anxiety-ridden housewives lawyers and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers Guild who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishly devoted groupies.Selenas not interested in the slimy celebrity-schmoozing sorcerer but nobody turns Lucien down without consequences. When he threatens to fit her with magical cement shoes and drop her off the Santa Monica Pier Selenas Tarot cards point her to Globe Arizona for a new home a new shop and a cursed pet cat.Just as shes settling in and meeting the locals  including Calvin Standingbear hunky chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police  Lucien tracks her downand promptly disappears. When his body turns up on tribal lands its up to Calvin to investigate. Starting with Selena.And when one of Luciens acolytes is killed traces of dark magic and cryptic warnings from the spirits send Selena and Calvin in a race against time  before a too-close-for-comfort evil cuts her own life short.The Hedgewitch for Hire series will continue with book 2 Social Medium releasing on March 31 2021. The romance subplot will stretch over the entire series while each novel will be a self-contained mystery without a cliffhanger.
language: English
title: Grave Mistake
publisher: Dark Valentine Press