Lockwood Chronicles

Lela Lockwood is a doctor, not a detective. But when a magical inheritance plunges her into a small-town murder spree, she's forced to diagnose a killer.After years in the high-stress chaos of the ER, Lela thought moving back home to inherit her eccentric aunt's house would be simple. She was wrong. Now, she's the Keeper of a family legacy that includes magical objects-and the attention of a powerful, centuries-old evil.When the bizarre deaths begin, Lela must team up with a charming, shape-shifting companion and the rest of her loud, quirky found family to find the culprit. But as a new millionaire in town gets uncomfortably close and the Jinn's deception is revealed, Lela realizes her greatest danger isn't the magic she protects-it's the person she trusts. Can Lela save her town and her sanity before the dark truth destroys everything? From "Little House" fan fiction in elementary school, Emily Karmazin pursued her passion for storytelling to become a mystery novelist. A reader and traveler with a master's degree in education, Emily is also a mentor for authors. She is the author of the Lexi and Zelda Midlife Mysteries series with The Wild Rose Press, including The Case of the Kona Curse (May 2025), and the dark paranormal mystery, Final Wish (available on Amazon). Emily lives in Utah's Wasatch Mountains with her husband and their dog, Lilo.