Steeped in secrets - lauren elliott

From the USA Today bestselling author of the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries comes the first in a new series featuring an intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop in beautiful coastal Californias Monterey Peninsula.

Appealing characters, surprising twists, a bit of magic, and the promise of romance.

Lovers of paranormal cozies are sure to get on board.

-- Publishers Weekly Even with her life in ruins in New Mexico, Shay feels uneasy about settling into the small seaside town where she grew up on Californias Monterey Peninsula and taking over an estate bequeathed to her by Bridget Early, a woman she had barely known.

Her heightened senses--an empathic gift shes had since childhood--go into overdrive upon touring Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, Bridgets eclectic tea and psychic shop.

They reach a boiling point when Shay looks up to discover a strangers body sprawled across the shops greenhouse roof .

With her new business a crime scene and questions brewing over Bridgets so-called accidental death, Shay fears shes also inherited the attention of a killer.

The terrifying realization sets her on an impractical investigation for answers aided by her sister, an elusive pure-white German Shepherd, a strikingly handsome pub owner who speaks in a gentle brogue, and a misunderstood young woman with perceptive talents of her own.