Wicked witches. Murder. Mystery.

A cozy mystery with magic, witches, and a ghoul at a magical boarding school.

You’ve never experienced a spelling bee until you’ve tried one at a magical boarding school for witches. Magic is never more dangerous than when it is misspelled. Prepare to be stung by this spelling bee.

As a teacher at the most prestigious magical boarding school for witches, Ms. Vega Bloodmire is in her element doing what she does best—namely, boss people around. She’s ready to show off her academic coaching skills as queen of the spelling bee, demonstrate she’s worthy of being hired back the next school year, and take the Merlin-class Celestor exam to prove she is a powerful and skilled witch.

Yet when a mysterious message is slipped under Vega’s door, alluding to knowledge of her ghoulish secret, her world is turned upside down. She must find out who has discovered her taboo cravings for cadavers and dabblings in forbidden magic before she loses her job or is tried as a criminal.

Unfortunately, she has a mountain of obstacles keeping her from finding her enemy, including an uncooperative magical purse, a nemesis sabotaging the school spelling bee, an interfering do-gooder of an ex-boyfriend, and rival students intent on cursing each other with more than profanities. These teenagers have big hexes and know how to use them.

How is she supposed to keep her word helping a sick student and ghosts she’s promised to do good deeds for when rival students, vengeful teachers, and a micromanaging principal all stand in her way?

Vega must find her new enemy before her life is ruined, she is fired from her summer job before she’s even hired for it, and she becomes the most unfashionable witch in the land.

Can Vega discover who knows her ghoulish secret before they expose her?

This book starts with Vega Bloodmire’s life before working at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches when she was a new and inexperienced teacher at Lady of the Lake School for Girls. GHOUL BOSS is the 10th book in the series of mysteries taking place at a magical academy, but these whodunnits are fine to be read in any order.

Clean, cozy, no sex or swearing, PG 13—perfectly fine for teens or grandmas who like mysteries with magic.


Genre: Cozy Mystery