Bring Your Beach Owl (The Owl Star Witch Mysteries Book 7) by Leanne Leeds

Author:Leanne Leeds [Leeds, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Badchen Publishing
Published: 2022-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

“We’ll get you up to speed,” I told Emma.

“What are we dealing with here? Just ballpark it for me while we’re waiting for everyone to finish.”

“Potentially murderous undines, a mermaid with an attitude, a child ghost, and claims of a selkie, I think,” I said and then took a sip of the terrible coffee. “Oh, and a dude that followed us through the Space Center, multiple fishermen that might want revenge for being hexed, and papers outlining some weird underwater casino that seems more of a pipe dream than a possible reality.”

Emma laughed.

I stared at her.

She stopped laughing abruptly, her eyes wide. “I’m sorry, were you joking?”

I shook my head. “I wish I was. You guys walked into a real convoluted situation here.”

Ami shushed us and turned up the volume on the television. “And I think it’s about to get weirder,” she said, pointing. “They’re talking about Amelia.”

The picture on the television flickered to a reporter standing near the shoreline of a beach and then zoomed out to show the sea.

“—Jenny Bailey reporting,” the brunette reporter said into the camera. “One day ago, Amelia Arden, a local resident and employee of Elysium Condominiums, disappeared after going out on her boat. Police found her body on the beach early this morning, and they claim there was no indication of foul play. But this afternoon, local investigators changed that assessment after they searched the condominium’s boat and found fish scales on the railing that matched mysterious, unidentified scales found on Amelia’s body. Locals on the beach have been talking about the case all day.”

The reporter disappeared off-camera and the camera panned across the beach to a crowd gathered. A blue-eyed girl with curly brown hair and a pink sweater appeared among them. The group was several yards from the camera, but the microphone managed to pick up a hint of what the young girl was telling the others.

“Amelia didn’t want to go into the…” There was a pause as the girl turned her head, and the next words were unidentifiable. The girl turned again. “…but they said they’d tell on me if I didn’t go.”

“Who?” a member of the group asked.

The girl turned sharply, and her eyes widening at something off-camera. She broke into tears and then ran away from the crowd like something was chasing her.

No one in the group followed her.

“Could that be the ghost girl? It sounded like she knew something,” Ami whispered, looking fearfully at Jason. “Please tell me that’s not the little ghost girl.” Her eyes welled up with tears. “We already lost our cousin. I can’t handle it if a child’s dead, now, too.”

“Yeah, you can,” Ayla told her with grim determination. “You can handle anything you have to.”

“I don’t think that’s a girl,” I said, watching the little girl. “Look.” The curly-headed child was still in the background of the shot, behind the reporter. She was running straight for the ocean. “That’s an undine. It has to be. Look. She’s going toward the water.”

As we watched the wide shot intently, the camera angle changed and Detective Saul Marcus came into view.

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