Clinics and Curses: A Witch Cozy Mystery (Midlife Medicine Book 4) by Amorette Anderson

Author:Amorette Anderson [Anderson, Amorette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

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The grass out front of Black Crow Books was tan, rather than green. The trees scattered around the property had a forlorn look about them. And the garden—that was especially sad looking.

Sunflowers wilted. Green beans that usually climbed proudly up the tall trellis instead withered near the very bottom rungs. Kale and Swiss chard, typically dauntless greens that sprouted skyward no matter what kind of wind, rain, or extreme sun they experienced, had given up the battle. They curled inwards, like sleepy children, ready to lie down and go to bed.

“Don’t give up just yet, friends,” Grace whispered to the plants as she passed. “Tomorrow night, you’ll have rain. If all goes well.”

That struck her as a big “if.”

As things stood, she was no closer to patching up the conflict between Riverbend and Shady Valley than when Doc Ham and Judy had first called the emergency meeting. If anything, they were now farther from peace than when all the trouble began. Shane’s death made that initial rift between the covens into a divide of Grand Canyon-esque proportions.

I have to figure out what’s truly going on, Grace thought. Only then will justice be served, rehabilitation commenced, and peace restored to my community.

With these thoughts in mind, she marched up the front steps. And to untangle this web of thievery, greed, deception, and perhaps revengeful actions, I must first organize my thoughts.

For that, I’ll need paper, a pen, and some sustenance. She stepped into the shop. A good cup of tea would hit the spot.

The interior of Black Crow Books smelled like home-cooked vegetable soup. And some soup, she added. A sandwich would go well with that, too.

Acoustic guitar music played through the speakers. Ben had rearranged a few of the prints on the wall. Now, a very lively image of a flock of birds in flight caught Grace’s eye as she approached the counter behind which Ben stood.

“I love the new arrangement,” she said, as Ben emerged from a back room with a wooden bowl in his hands. Grace could see a lump of dough there, partially risen, the flour-dusted top as smooth and round as the cutest little baby’s bottom.

She motioned toward the print of black birds soaring through a cornflower-blue sky. Bright yellow starbursts between the birds’ flying forms added color and balance to the image, and several birds contained small red hearts in their chests. “It reminds me of Matisse… his Icarus.”

“That’s one of my favorite paintings,” Ben said with an easy grin.

Grace’s heart fluttered. She shouldn’t have been surprised. Over the past year, she’d often been stunned by the odd and miraculous little things that she and Ben had in common.

Once, she’d pulled a book from a small bookshelf in his bedroom and opened it at random. It was a book she’d read years before, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ben had underlined certain sentences and passages, and Grace was astounded and delighted to find that the writing that most resonated with her had also resonated with Ben.

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