What's worse than your aunt showing up to dinner covered in blood? Finding out she's accused of murder.
The last thing brand-new weather-witch Amalie Holmes needs is another crisis. Her foster daughter is acting out, her relationship with Pine Lake's most stubborn detective is getting complicated, and her first official witch exam is coming up.
Then a local stitch-witch is found dead, and the clues point straight at Amalie's aunt.
But nothing in Pine Lake is ever that simple.
As Amalie digs deeper, the murder begins to echo an unsolved death from years ago, and stirs up questions surrounding the night her mother vanished. The evidence is murky, the town is tight-lipped, and even the dead won't spill their secrets.
Now Amalie must clear her aunt's name, protect her spirit-witch foster daughter from the fallout, and pass an exam that shapes her future as a witch, all while someone works very hard to make sure she fails.
Permanently.
Welcome back to Pine Lake, where old secrets resurface, and some truths are worth killing for.