Florida · four books
Whisperwillow Springs
A thrift store, a café, a bookstore, and fifty years of county records nobody has ever read closely.
Maggie Sullivan is forty-six, divorced, and running her grandmother’s old store when a silver ring arrives on an estate truck and refuses to come off her hand. Eleanor Sullivan, it turns out, left behind considerably more than a storefront.
Each book belongs to a different woman. Maggie, who can read the history of any object she touches. Jenna Martinez, who runs the café and did not ask for magic and would like it noted that she did not ask. Sophia Moonwater, who kept Eleanor’s archive for thirty years without once wondering what it was for. And Nora Ashby, who restores photographs, and arrived in town with her mother’s ashes and no idea why her mother never admitted knowing the place.
They aren’t four separate stories. They’re one town, one buried summer, and a circle of friends that widens by one each time — with Eleanor Sullivan, dead before the first page, at the center of all of it.
The series
All four books are written
- 1
The Thrift Store Thaumaturge
January 2027
Six boxes arrive from a house Maggie never knew existed, emptied down to the light bulbs, that somebody has quietly paid the taxes on for thirty years. In the smallest one is a ring that will not come off.
- 2
The Bargain Bin Witch
February 2027
Jenna Martinez had an arrangement with the universe: work hard, be decent, make an excellent scone, be left alone. The universe has begun renegotiating.
- 3
Discontinued Line
March 2027
A child’s swimming medal, fifty years old, well handled and much loved. The engraving is not worn away. It is absent.
- 4
Sold As-Is
May 2027
Nine folders. Nine households. One name at a time. Eleven people are about to be buried fifty years late.