Steeped in Secrets

By Emma Holloway

A rival tea empire. A public toast. And a death that turns out to be the easiest part of Ivy Sutter's week.

Six weeks after solving her aunt's murder, Ivy has finally gotten the Tinctorium's grand reopening exactly right, new blend, full crowd, a cautiously happy sheriff at her side. Then Priscilla Hartwell, the glamorous founder of a tea-chain empire scouting Bramblewick Harbor for a hostile new location, collapses mid-toast from an allergic reaction that shouldn't have been survivable, and shouldn't, by every account of how carefully she managed her own allergy, have happened at all.

The EpiPen didn't work. The tea was engineered to hide exactly what it needed to hide. And the first person this town turns on isn't a stranger, it's Ivy's own best friend, the one person with the most obvious reason to want Priscilla gone.

To clear Mabel's name, Ivy has to separate real guilt from ordinary shame, trace a pattern of quiet sabotage stretching back years, and figure out how someone turned a woman's own carefully managed allergy into the perfect, untraceable weapon, before the killer decides she already knows too much.

Some secrets steep quietly for years before they finally boil over.

Book Two of The Elemental Mysteries.
Emma Holloway

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H958V1NF
• ISBN13: 9798187588015
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"