The Mirrors of Fernwick Lane
(2026)(The third book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mystery series)
A novel by Cordelia Clark
The mirrors on Fernwick Lane have started showing the wrong version of things.
Not broken. Not cracked. Just a half-second off — reflections that move before their owners do, that show candles burned down to stubs while the real ones sit untouched, that show an older face in a polishing mirror when the man standing in front of it is sixty-three.
Petra Hawthorne, Keeper of the Mosswood apothecary, has learned to pay attention to small things. The directional cold that doesn't move. The sound that arrives a beat early. The reflection that has already set down a pen she's still holding.
Something in the hidden substrate beneath Mosswood has been disturbed. Not by a fluctuation in the field — the field is running ordinarily. By someone who knew exactly where to look, what to take, and when to take it. Someone methodical, patient, and professional.
The mirrors are showing what the field is trying to choose instead of what is. The longer Petra lets the mirrors choose, the more of Mosswood will follow.
The Mirrors of Fernwick Lane is the third book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mysteries, a cozy mystery series set in a small Ozark town where the magic runs quietly through everyday life, the apothecary's Keeper is the first to notice when something goes wrong, and the questions that matter most are always human ones.
Genre: Mystery
Not broken. Not cracked. Just a half-second off — reflections that move before their owners do, that show candles burned down to stubs while the real ones sit untouched, that show an older face in a polishing mirror when the man standing in front of it is sixty-three.
Petra Hawthorne, Keeper of the Mosswood apothecary, has learned to pay attention to small things. The directional cold that doesn't move. The sound that arrives a beat early. The reflection that has already set down a pen she's still holding.
Something in the hidden substrate beneath Mosswood has been disturbed. Not by a fluctuation in the field — the field is running ordinarily. By someone who knew exactly where to look, what to take, and when to take it. Someone methodical, patient, and professional.
The mirrors are showing what the field is trying to choose instead of what is. The longer Petra lets the mirrors choose, the more of Mosswood will follow.
The Mirrors of Fernwick Lane is the third book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mysteries, a cozy mystery series set in a small Ozark town where the magic runs quietly through everyday life, the apothecary's Keeper is the first to notice when something goes wrong, and the questions that matter most are always human ones.
Genre: Mystery
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