Manuscripts and Magic
(2027)(The tenth book in the Magical Bookstore Mystery series)
A novel by Sue Hollowell
Some secrets were buried for a reason. This one has been waiting centuries to be found.
When retired records clerk Linus Weaver dies under suspicious circumstances at the Port Havenwood Historical Society, Arabella discovers he’d been digging into something far more dangerous than dusty old ledgers.
A missing page. An ancient map. A trace of unexplained magic. All of it points toward a place most people believe is only a legend—the hidden First Guardian’s Archive.
With Detective Reed, Danica, Maddie, and her fashionable familiar Marcel at her side, Arabella follows the trail through forgotten boundary lines, forged maps, and old family secrets.
But the deeper she digs, the stranger the clues become.
The magic left behind doesn’t behave the way it should. Marcel becomes obsessed with something no one else notices. And the mysterious map may not simply lead to the Archive.
It may be the only way inside.
Now someone else is following the same trail—and getting dangerously close.
Arabella must uncover what Linus discovered before the wrong person reaches the Archive first.
Because some manuscripts preserve history. Others can rewrite it.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When retired records clerk Linus Weaver dies under suspicious circumstances at the Port Havenwood Historical Society, Arabella discovers he’d been digging into something far more dangerous than dusty old ledgers.
A missing page. An ancient map. A trace of unexplained magic. All of it points toward a place most people believe is only a legend—the hidden First Guardian’s Archive.
With Detective Reed, Danica, Maddie, and her fashionable familiar Marcel at her side, Arabella follows the trail through forgotten boundary lines, forged maps, and old family secrets.
But the deeper she digs, the stranger the clues become.
The magic left behind doesn’t behave the way it should. Marcel becomes obsessed with something no one else notices. And the mysterious map may not simply lead to the Archive.
It may be the only way inside.
Now someone else is following the same trail—and getting dangerously close.
Arabella must uncover what Linus discovered before the wrong person reaches the Archive first.
Because some manuscripts preserve history. Others can rewrite it.
Genre: Cozy Mystery