Purr Under Pressure

Something called them to Larkspur Valley. Nobody can say what.

It's late May, the snow is finally off the peaks, and Larkspur Valley should be at its quietest. Instead, on an ordinary Monday night, something rings through the whole valley like a bell. Alexis Belrose feels it. So do her cats, and so does every witch for miles. Not one of them can say what it was.

Within days, the strangers start arriving. A lost young woman walking a dirt road with no idea how she got there. A sweet, chatty couple who seem to charm everyone they meet. A quiet man with a walking stick and no first name, sleeping under the pines. None of them know why they came. They only know they couldn't stay away.

Then Orrin Ballard, the quiet woodworker who built half the town, including the counter at The Cozy Purrch, is found dead in his own workshop. And the gate at the end of his road is chained shut from the outside.

With every room in town full of strangers and the sheriff running out of time, Larkspur Valley starts turning on itself. Alexis has spent nearly two years keeping her magic and her past out of sight, and a card that arrived in her mail says the hiding may be over. She's certain she knows who is behind it all. But the closer she looks, the more the truth points somewhere she never thought to look.

Cozy café. Talking cats. A town full of strangers. And a witch who is running out of places to hide.

Purr Under Pressure is the sixth book in The Cozy Purrch Café Mysteries, a paranormal cozy series brimming with warmth, mountain-town charm, found family, and a heroine coming slowly but surely into her own power. Perfect for readers who love their mysteries with a cup of something warm, a cat (or several), and a little bit of magic.