Murder Behind the Mirror Wall
(2026)(The second book in the Moonbreak Island Witch Mystery series)
A novel by Claire Bessey
Maris Vale survived her first murder investigation on Moonbreak Island. She would love a quiet week behind the bar at The Tipsy Moon.
Moonbreak Island has other plans.
The luxurious Moonbreak Grand Resort is hosting Reflect and Rise Weekend, a beauty and lifestyle creator event tied to Mirror Room, a glossy selfie attraction filled with flawless lighting, polished surfaces, influencer panels, and promises of perfect reinvention. Maris expects drama, impossible guests, and cocktails that need to look good on camera.
She does not expect one of the weekend’s biggest influencers to end up dead on the beach.
Sienna Lark was glamorous, difficult, and far sharper than people gave her credit for. The day before her death, she argued with Maris at The Tipsy Moon and hinted that Mirror Room was selling more than pretty pictures. By morning, Sienna is found near the surf in a Mirror Room robe, with a strange mark at her throat and a reflection that does not look right in the photos taken before she died.
The police see a suspicious death.
Maris sees glamour magic.
Rafe Calder, the guarded private investigator who has become far too important to Maris’s peace of mind, is already tangled in the case. Sienna’s wealthy husband hired him to find out whether she was having an affair. She was not. She was blackmailing someone.
As Maris and Rafe dig into Mirror Room’s private beauty sessions, altered client files, missing raw photos, and a wall no one wants to look at directly, they uncover something far uglier than vanity. Someone is stealing confidence, memory, identity, and pieces of people’s reflections, then selling the polished fragments to powerful buyers.
And Sienna found proof.
With Captain Junia Moss demanding real evidence, Rumor the parrot shouting ‘Pretty lies,’ and Maris’s own magic reacting badly to the glass, the investigation turns personal fast. The closer Maris gets to the Mirror Wall, the more it tempts her with a version of herself untouched by pain, fear, or old scars.
But on Moonbreak Island, perfection always has a price.
To solve Sienna''s murder, Maris must expose a killer who understands beauty, shame, and power far too well. She must also face a new truth about her family’s past, because the broken glass inside Mirror Room holds an image that connects her grandmother to Rafe’s father.
And Rafe is not ready to explain what that means.
Murder Behind the Mirror Wall is the second book in The Moonbreak Island Witch Mysteries, a clean paranormal cozy mystery series featuring a weather witch sleuth, a beach resort full of dangerous secrets, slow-burn romantic tension, supernatural crime, sharp clues, and a chaotic parrot who always knows more than he should.
Perfect for readers who enjoy witch cozy mysteries, paranormal cozy mystery series, clean cozy mysteries with romance, beach resort mysteries, amateur sleuth mysteries, mysteries with magic, and cozy mysteries with pets.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Moonbreak Island has other plans.
The luxurious Moonbreak Grand Resort is hosting Reflect and Rise Weekend, a beauty and lifestyle creator event tied to Mirror Room, a glossy selfie attraction filled with flawless lighting, polished surfaces, influencer panels, and promises of perfect reinvention. Maris expects drama, impossible guests, and cocktails that need to look good on camera.
She does not expect one of the weekend’s biggest influencers to end up dead on the beach.
Sienna Lark was glamorous, difficult, and far sharper than people gave her credit for. The day before her death, she argued with Maris at The Tipsy Moon and hinted that Mirror Room was selling more than pretty pictures. By morning, Sienna is found near the surf in a Mirror Room robe, with a strange mark at her throat and a reflection that does not look right in the photos taken before she died.
The police see a suspicious death.
Maris sees glamour magic.
Rafe Calder, the guarded private investigator who has become far too important to Maris’s peace of mind, is already tangled in the case. Sienna’s wealthy husband hired him to find out whether she was having an affair. She was not. She was blackmailing someone.
As Maris and Rafe dig into Mirror Room’s private beauty sessions, altered client files, missing raw photos, and a wall no one wants to look at directly, they uncover something far uglier than vanity. Someone is stealing confidence, memory, identity, and pieces of people’s reflections, then selling the polished fragments to powerful buyers.
And Sienna found proof.
With Captain Junia Moss demanding real evidence, Rumor the parrot shouting ‘Pretty lies,’ and Maris’s own magic reacting badly to the glass, the investigation turns personal fast. The closer Maris gets to the Mirror Wall, the more it tempts her with a version of herself untouched by pain, fear, or old scars.
But on Moonbreak Island, perfection always has a price.
To solve Sienna''s murder, Maris must expose a killer who understands beauty, shame, and power far too well. She must also face a new truth about her family’s past, because the broken glass inside Mirror Room holds an image that connects her grandmother to Rafe’s father.
And Rafe is not ready to explain what that means.
Murder Behind the Mirror Wall is the second book in The Moonbreak Island Witch Mysteries, a clean paranormal cozy mystery series featuring a weather witch sleuth, a beach resort full of dangerous secrets, slow-burn romantic tension, supernatural crime, sharp clues, and a chaotic parrot who always knows more than he should.
Perfect for readers who enjoy witch cozy mysteries, paranormal cozy mystery series, clean cozy mysteries with romance, beach resort mysteries, amateur sleuth mysteries, mysteries with magic, and cozy mysteries with pets.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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