Blood Moon Over Candlewick Creek: A Paranormal Witch and Wolf Cozy Mystery, Book One Arc Finale
About Blood Moon Over Candlewick Creek: A Paranormal Witch and Wolf Cozy Mystery, Book One Arc Finale
Autumn in Candlewick Creek is supposed to feel like comfort: copper leaves, warm drinks, and “spooky season” tourists who want safe thrills. This year the town feels brittle. The wolf sanctuary is under a new “safety review.
” The council is pushing an emergency vote on a forest access corridor that would cut straight through protected land. Everyone is tired, and tired people accept bad deals just to make the noise stop. Then the town’s most influential fixer is found dead the morning after the Harvest Moon Night Market.
The victim is not an outsider. They are the person who smoothed permits, buried complaints, and kept certain names off paper. Their death detonates Candlewick Creek’s social order, because half the town has paid them for silence and the other half has begged them for protection.
The panic comes fast, and so does the push for a convenient scapegoat. Wolves. The sanctuary.
The “witch.”Tamsin Hart refuses to play along. With Deputy Rowan Pike under political pressure and her wolf-dog familiar, Moss, facing a renewed threat of seizure, Tamsin opens the last sealed section of her grandmother’s grimoire, the one bound shut with old wards and older warnings.
It is not just spellwork. It is a coded ledger of the town’s ugliest bargains, and using it leaves a trail that makes Tamsin impossible to ignore. As the investigation tightens, Tamsin finds the same pattern behind every polite lie: manufactured fear, staged signs, and money moving through “consultants” and “community partners” who never appear on the blame list.
The killer knows how to steer a crowd, and they intend to turn Candlewick Creek against Tamsin before she can expose the operation behind the murders. The final confrontation happens under the Blood Moon gathering at the sanctuary, with the whole town watching and nowhere left to hide behind folklore.