Pastries and Prophecies
A Cozy Paranormal Mystery
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4.6 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When the past blows into town, a witch goes along for the ride.
Surprises aren’t Skye O’Malley’s favorite thing, but this gloomy February is full of them. Fix My Town, a reality renovation show, has set its sights on Skye’s little coffee shop — and won’t take her emphatic “no” for an answer. Worse, the producers are staying in the same rental that was the scene of a murder just a few months earlier.
A harbinger of things to come? Skye begins to wonder…especially when an apparition from the past blows into town. Alicia Petrucci, who abandoned Skye as a baby, is back to teach Skye the ways of Petrucci family magic.
Skye would like to throw her newly resurfaced mother out on her ear, but the temptation to strengthen her magic is hard to resist. With Alicia’s guidance, Skye’s true powers begin to emerge — along with the hope that she can build a relationship with the mother she never knew.
But when one of the show’s producers is murdered and Alicia is accused of the crime, Skye will need more than tea leaves and dreams to prove her innocence. She’ll need to move mountains...and outrun the real killer before she becomes the next victim.
Customer Reviews
Another great book!
This review is of Pastries and Prophecies, book 3 in the Lattes and Levitation series by Christine Pope. I received an ARC copy and this review is my honest opinion.
Las Vegas, New Mexico is one of those towns where just about everyone knows everyone. Their local hero Max Sullivan has bought a huge ranch where he can live between movie shoots. Skye O’Malley is the local girl who has the cool coffee shop that everyone loves, who grew up next door to Max, and who reads tea leaves. Okay, not everyone knows Skye reads tea leaves and has psychic dreams. Maybe Las Vegas isn’t an average town after all.
Then someone dies. This is, after all a murder mystery. And there are people who think Skye to use her abilities to find this killer. And once Max returns home, he expects Skye to find the killer with a little help from him. So this is a nice cozy mystery and everything turns out right in the end. That is the way these books work after all.
But to assume that’s what Pastries and Prophecies is all about is to miss out on the much bigger story that this book is telling. The heart of this book is believing in yourself and your friends. And realizing family isn’t always biological. It’s about knowing who you can trust no matter what. And you don’t help people because you are going to get fame and money; you do it because it’s the right thing to do.
I stopped revealing too much about a book many reviews ago because I wanted to write something that would make someone want to read the book. Not because they knew everything that was going to happen, but because they had the same values as the characters and wanted to find the extra story that was being told. That they wanted more than just a solved case.
I hope you enjoy this book and it’s many layers as much as I did.