Grave Tide at the Sea Wall Gala: A Witchy Coastal Cozy Mystery with a Wolf Companion
About Grave Tide at the Sea Wall Gala: A Witchy Coastal Cozy Mystery with a Wolf Companion
Grave Tide at the Sea Wall Gala is a witchy coastal cozy mystery set in a storm-battered harbor town where murder, contract fraud, and manufactured public confidence collide. Hexproof Harbor is betting its future on the sea wall. The project is supposed to save the town.
It promises protection, funding, jobs, and a clean story people can cling to when the weather turns ugly. So when a prominent climate donor is found dead near the sea wall works on the night of a high-profile gala, everyone understands the stakes immediately. If the wrong truth gets out, the project could collapse.
If the right lie gets there first, it might survive. Sage Calder has seen that pattern before. What begins as a suspicious death at the edge of the construction site quickly turns into something bigger: altered inspection records, scrubbed paperwork, staged safety language, and a town already preparing to believe the most convenient version of events.
The official story arrives far too fast. The donor is framed as a tragic victim of bad timing and rough water. The rebuild must continue.
Public confidence must be protected. And the same people who always profit from panic are suddenly offering to “stabilize” the town again. But Sage’s magic is changing.
This time, it does not tug her toward ghosts or whispered folklore. It reacts to edited documents, forged signatures, and records that have been cleaned until they look trustworthy. The deeper she digs, the more obvious it becomes that the sea wall is not simply a project.
It is leverage. Storm damage is being used as an opportunity. Oversight is being manipulated.
And someone killed to keep that machine running. With her scarred wolf companion Rook at her side, Sage must untangle a murder wrapped in false safety, political pressure, and contract fraud before the town buries the truth under another round of polished reassurance. If she fails, Hexproof Harbor will not just lose justice for one dead man.
It will hand its future to the people who have been scripting its fear from the start. Perfect for readers who love witchy cozy mysteries, coastal murder mysteries, paranormal suspense, strong female sleuths, wolf companions, and small-town secrets, Grave Tide at the Sea Wall Gala delivers a tense, atmospheric mystery packed with fair-play clues, emotional stakes, public deception, and a heroine who is done keeping the peace.