Ball Drop Burglary
(2026)(The fourth book in the Witchy Holiday Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
If you love witchy cozy mysteries, magical small towns, talking familiars, quirky characters, and holiday mysteries sparkling with secrets, welcome back to Stardust Springs!
New Year’s Eve is coming to Stardust Springs, and this town doesn’t just ring in the new year. It drops it.
Every December 31st, the whole town gathers for the Starlight Countdown, complete with enchanted fireworks, a midnight toast, and the Wishing Sphere, a glittering crystal ball that has dropped from the clock tower at the stroke of midnight for more than a hundred years, sealing in a full year of good luck for everyone in town.
Great Aunt Ezzie has finally won the honor of dropping the Sphere this year, fair and square. Mostly. Harold, my sarcastic snake familiar, has exactly one resolution: fewer fireworks, more naps. And I’m hoping to ring in the new year with a quiet midnight kiss from Mason, our handsome police chief.
Naturally, that’s when Lucian ‘Lucky’ Fontaine rolls into town.
The smooth-talking traveling luck merchant arrives with a wagon full of charms, a smile full of promises, and an offer to buy the Wishing Sphere outright. The town says no. Loudly. Aunt Ezzie says a few things I can’t repeat. And Fontaine doesn’t seem like a man who takes no for an answer.
Then, the night before the Countdown, the impossible happens. The Wishing Sphere disappears. So does every single wish inside it.
With a century of the town’s luck missing and midnight ticking closer, Mason has his hands full. Which means it’s up to me, Harold, and my eccentric group of magical friends to follow the clues before Stardust Springs rings in the unluckiest year in its history.
But nothing in Stardust Springs is ever that simple. Because someone is wishing for the wrong things. Someone else is running out of luck.
And this New Year’s Eve, I have a feeling the Sphere isn’t the only thing about to drop.
Ball Drop Burglary is a fun, festive paranormal cozy mystery filled with witches, magic, an amateur sleuth, a talking animal familiar, a magical small town, quirky senior characters, holiday traditions, small-town secrets, a touch of romance, and a puzzling New Year’s whodunit perfect for readers who love their cozy mysteries with a supernatural twist. This book is book 4 in the Witchy Holiday Cozy series, a spin off of the Witches of Holiday Hills Cozy Mysteries.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
New Year’s Eve is coming to Stardust Springs, and this town doesn’t just ring in the new year. It drops it.
Every December 31st, the whole town gathers for the Starlight Countdown, complete with enchanted fireworks, a midnight toast, and the Wishing Sphere, a glittering crystal ball that has dropped from the clock tower at the stroke of midnight for more than a hundred years, sealing in a full year of good luck for everyone in town.
Great Aunt Ezzie has finally won the honor of dropping the Sphere this year, fair and square. Mostly. Harold, my sarcastic snake familiar, has exactly one resolution: fewer fireworks, more naps. And I’m hoping to ring in the new year with a quiet midnight kiss from Mason, our handsome police chief.
Naturally, that’s when Lucian ‘Lucky’ Fontaine rolls into town.
The smooth-talking traveling luck merchant arrives with a wagon full of charms, a smile full of promises, and an offer to buy the Wishing Sphere outright. The town says no. Loudly. Aunt Ezzie says a few things I can’t repeat. And Fontaine doesn’t seem like a man who takes no for an answer.
Then, the night before the Countdown, the impossible happens. The Wishing Sphere disappears. So does every single wish inside it.
With a century of the town’s luck missing and midnight ticking closer, Mason has his hands full. Which means it’s up to me, Harold, and my eccentric group of magical friends to follow the clues before Stardust Springs rings in the unluckiest year in its history.
But nothing in Stardust Springs is ever that simple. Because someone is wishing for the wrong things. Someone else is running out of luck.
And this New Year’s Eve, I have a feeling the Sphere isn’t the only thing about to drop.
Ball Drop Burglary is a fun, festive paranormal cozy mystery filled with witches, magic, an amateur sleuth, a talking animal familiar, a magical small town, quirky senior characters, holiday traditions, small-town secrets, a touch of romance, and a puzzling New Year’s whodunit perfect for readers who love their cozy mysteries with a supernatural twist. This book is book 4 in the Witchy Holiday Cozy series, a spin off of the Witches of Holiday Hills Cozy Mysteries.
Genre: Cozy Mystery