Menopause and Mandrakes

Marla Mason's post-divorce plan did not include her hot flashes developing a magical side effect: a 'Truth Heat' that makes secrets spill and, in one memorable case, a salad scream in Latin. When that same salad incident coincides with the abrupt disappearance of Pendle-Stitch's meticulously organized Town Clerk, Marla, a professional organizer with a magical talent for finding lost things, finds herself at the center of a supernatural mystery. Equipped with her unique "Clutter-Mancy" and the unsolicited council of Barnaby, a cursed gargoyle with a passion for paperwork, Marla must team up with Sheriff Silas "Grim" Grimsby, a grumpy Were-Bloodhound who can smell lies, guilt, and Marla's particular brand of chaos. Their investigation soon reveals that the Town Clerk's disappearance is no simple kidnapping. It's a crime tied to a seventy-year-old cold case and a shadowy entity known as Hemlock—a 'construct' hired to tidy up loose ends by erasing them from reality itself. As Marla unravels a conspiracy woven into the very fabric of her quirky town, she discovers that her ability to spot things that are out of place might be the only weapon that can fight a monster who tidies up its crimes by deleting them from existence. To save the clerk and her town, she'll have to embrace the chaos she's spent her life fighting. But when you go up against a creature that can edit reality, you risk more than just your life—you risk being permanently filed away.