A spirited blend / Lauren Elliott.

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For charmed tea shop owner Shay Myers, getting steeped in Bray Harbor, California's October festivities is spookier than she ever could have bargained for-especially when a bone-chilling murder mystery spells grave danger . . .

With Halloween around the corner, Shay Myers is brewing witchy seasonal sips at Crystals and CuriosiTEAS -while simultaneously steaming over pub owner Liam Madigan's decision to take anybody but her to the town's Monster Mash dance. Her romantic premonitions have missed the mark since she settled into coastal Bray Harbor, opening the door to questions about whether she's really the gifted seer her late mother imagined. It's why she second guesses the dark vision in her tea leaves about a local citizen and their obsession with genealogy, Irish folklore, and magic . . .

But when bad omens come true, Shay doesn't have time for self-doubt. A woman's body has been discovered, frozen in a strange pose with an eerie black butterfly on her forehead, leading to suspicions that the victim took a conjuring ritual too far due to limited experience-or was murdered by someone with too much. As an investigation stirs up a sinister connection to a boardwalk mystic shop, Shay, guided by her knowing dog, Spirit, finds herself tracking down a shady figure from her past, navigating the sudden reappearance of her ex-husband, and chasing down a wickedly perceptive criminal who might finally be her match!

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Kirkus Book Review

A California shopkeeper faces challenges practical, mystical, and criminal. Shayleigh Myers' world hasn't changed much over the past year. She still works hard to make Crystals & CuriosiTEAS the premier destination for herbal remedies in Bray Harbor despite stiff competition from Madam Malvina, the owner of Celestial Treasures and Teas. She still pines for raffish Liam Madigan, who rewards her affection by asking her advice about his amorous inclinations toward every other young woman in town. She still has daily conversations with her late mother, Irish clairvoyant Bridget Early. She still gets warnings from the blue amulet Bridget gave her, which she wears hidden under her shirt. And she still can't help getting tangled up in every suspicious death that comes by. The latest victim is Cora Sutton, the wife of Bray Harbor's mayor. Shay feels some responsibility for Cora's fate because shortly before her death, Cora asked for a tea-leaf reading. Shay whitewashed some of the cards' more dire predictions. Then, shortly after the reading ended, Shay had a vision of Cora lying in the middle of a fairy ring--which is exactly where her corpse would be found. Shay looks to her friends and neighbors and into the world beyond in search of clues that might lead to Cora's killer, but she finds little help until a chance remark points her in the right direction. The supernatural spin distinguishes this series from other shopkeeper cozies, and it's otherwise a faithful prototype of the genre. Readers' fondness for this series will depend almost entirely on their affinity for the otherworldly. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.