The River That Paused
(2026)(The second book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mystery series)
A novel by Cordelia Clark
The Mosswood River has always run in a particular way at the bend below Fernwick Lane. When it pauses -- not freezes, just stops, briefly, in the way of a held breath -- Petra Hawthorne knows something upstream has gone wrong.
Seven months into her tenure as Keeper of the Mosswood apothecary, Petra has learned to read the town's quiet signals. This one points north, toward Crookline Ford and the Keeper who works the upstream node of the same hidden network Petra is only beginning to understand.
A stone has been taken. A courier is moving it south toward a private auction. And the buyer who hired him has been operating in the shadows of Keeper history for longer than Petra knew was possible.
With Sheriff Caleb Mercer working the legal layer and Crispin offering his usual sparse counsel, Petra follows the network where it leads -- and finds it wider than Mosswood, older than her grandmother, and still very much at risk.
The River That Paused is the second book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mysteries, a cozy series set in a small Ozark town where magic is woven into the working life of the community and the apothecary keeps more than remedies.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Seven months into her tenure as Keeper of the Mosswood apothecary, Petra has learned to read the town's quiet signals. This one points north, toward Crookline Ford and the Keeper who works the upstream node of the same hidden network Petra is only beginning to understand.
A stone has been taken. A courier is moving it south toward a private auction. And the buyer who hired him has been operating in the shadows of Keeper history for longer than Petra knew was possible.
With Sheriff Caleb Mercer working the legal layer and Crispin offering his usual sparse counsel, Petra follows the network where it leads -- and finds it wider than Mosswood, older than her grandmother, and still very much at risk.
The River That Paused is the second book in the Mosswood Apothecary Mysteries, a cozy series set in a small Ozark town where magic is woven into the working life of the community and the apothecary keeps more than remedies.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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