Wicked Good Mystery

Welcome to Charm Cove, Maine-where the Good are Wicked, and the Wicked are Good . . . or maybe not. Nothing is ever as it seems, at least not in Charm Cove, Maine. Moira Wicked moves away in the hopes she can escape her fate, or destiny, or something along those lines. She yearns to lead a normal life. A few years away teaches her one glaring lesson. It's incredibly difficult to be normal when your first name means destiny, your last name is Wicked, and you do come from a family legendary for its witchy ways. Trying to keep her powers under wraps in the real world is a tad tricky. A love spell gone sideways sets in motion her return to Charm Cove. As bad luck would have it, or fate if you'd rather, she's home for one day when a body turns up floating in the town fountain. The charming Charm Cove is turned upside down. Meanwhile, tourists are crowding its picturesque streets, and magic is being bottled up and sold as health remedies. Moira finds herself in the thick of the murder investigation, all the while trying to hold her nosy family and destiny at bay. Destiny comes in the form of Liam Good. A Wicked is fated to fall in love with a Good once every century. No pressure or anything.

Moira Wicked is back home for good. She's settling in to help run Persnickety Potions & Gifts, her family's store. Even though she's loath to admit it, she's a bit relieved to be home. Here in Charm Cove, there's nothing unusual about the last name Wicked and it's more uncommon to encounter someone who isn't a witch, rather than the other way around. Just when Moira thinks life might be quieting down, there's a spate of burglaries around town. It's no accident that the homes and businesses being targeted belong to witches. Once again, the oh-so-charming Charm Cove is all atwitter. Amidst the undercover investigation, tourists are still crowding the streets, seeking the magic and charm of the little town. Moira is in the middle of sleuthing out what happened, seeing as Persnickety Potions & Gifts was one of the burglar's targets. As if she didn't already have enough going on trying to hold her nosy family at bay. There's still that pesky destiny she's supposed to fulfill-specifically by marrying Liam Good. She might be on the way to falling in love with Liam, but she's not so sure about marriage yet. A Wicked is fated to fall in love with a Good once every century. No pressure or anything.

The holidays are upon Charm Cove and Moira Wicked is up to her eyeballs in magic as she manages Persnickety Potions & Gifts for her family. One evening after a busy day, she assumes she must be way too tipsy from her wine when she hears a commotion down at the beach by her home. Nope. Not too tipsy from wine. Lo and behold, a boat was dashed against the rocky coastline in the darkness. That's enough news by itself, but even worse, the three passengers who were believed to have been on the boat have vanished into thin air. So has the man who runs the lighthouse. To top it all off, Beacon's Charm Lighthouse is broken. That should be impossible because it runs on magic. Moira is chasing down the leads to find everyone who's missing and get the magic to work for the lighthouse again. Turns out when something runs on magic, the usual tricks don't fix it. The witchy families of Charm Cove find themselves fending off curious queries from officials about just what's wrong with their town's lighthouse. Meanwhile, throngs of visitors crowd the streets, buying up holiday magic by the bottle. Moira's destiny is bearing down upon her. Will she meet her fate in time for Christmas or not?

Deep in the heart of winter, all is quiet in Charm Cove. Or so Moira Wicked likes to think. The charming town in Maine is blanketed with snow, and magic is murmuring under the surface, but nothing is amiss. Until it's time for maple sugaring season. One of the earliest signs of spring is when the maple trees are ready to tap for sap, which becomes maple sugar, and syrup, and more. Once the first few trees are tapped, Charm Cove residents start reporting missing buckets of maple sap. At first, it's only a few and then it's almost all of them. It's a maple caper, and Charm Cove residents are riled up. In the midst of the missing maple sap dustup, Moira finds herself caught in the middle because, of course, everyone she knows is missing maple sap. Maple sugaring is big business, and money is on the line. Who knew money and maple syrup would make people so crazy? Meanwhile, Charm Cove is still a beacon to the wider world with its magic being bottled up and sold in its charming stores and online. Take a visit to Charm Cove, where Wicked meets Good and where you just might find there's almost always more than meets the eye.