Dread amid Dragons
(2026)(The ninth book in the Mystic Haven Tea Shop Mystery series)
A novel by TJ Costello and Kat McGee
The scavenger hunt was supposed to end with a prize. It ended with a body.
Fiona Shaw has spent a year turning a stranger's tea shop into something that feels like hers. The samovar runs hot, the counter stays busy, and Mystic Haven has stopped treating her like an outsider. Then silver dragon statues appear overnight in every shop window, ruby-eyed and claimed by no one, and a showman in a marigold suit builds a town-wide scavenger hunt on top of the mystery.
The Silver Scale Scavenger Scramble sends the whole town racing through riddles. Fiona's team draws the clue that leads to Bellshire Point, where the showman lies dead in the fog, ringed by nine silver dragons with every ruby eye pointed at him. The hunt doesn't stop. Sealed riddle cards keep appearing in a dead man's handwriting. The fountain dragon opens its mouth and announces to the crowd that someone helped him the dragon keeper meet his final curtain.
With Theo cataloguing suspects from the counter, Constable Hale recruiting her to read rooms, and the town's retired postman confessing in numbered paragraphs, Fiona discovers the scavenger hunt was never a game. It's an evidence chain dressed as a party, and the tea witch is the only one following it in order.
Featuring:
✔ Tea witch heroine with corporate crisis management skills
✔ Talking Siamese familiar with three centuries of dry opinions
✔ Hidden coastal town not on any map
✔ Corrupted charms with missing limiters
✔ Steady carpenter boyfriend and a trusty screwdriver
✔ Found family and casserole-wielding neighbors
✔ Sweet and cozy paranormal mystery
Pour yourself a cup and settle in. Mystic Haven is waiting.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Fiona Shaw has spent a year turning a stranger's tea shop into something that feels like hers. The samovar runs hot, the counter stays busy, and Mystic Haven has stopped treating her like an outsider. Then silver dragon statues appear overnight in every shop window, ruby-eyed and claimed by no one, and a showman in a marigold suit builds a town-wide scavenger hunt on top of the mystery.
The Silver Scale Scavenger Scramble sends the whole town racing through riddles. Fiona's team draws the clue that leads to Bellshire Point, where the showman lies dead in the fog, ringed by nine silver dragons with every ruby eye pointed at him. The hunt doesn't stop. Sealed riddle cards keep appearing in a dead man's handwriting. The fountain dragon opens its mouth and announces to the crowd that someone helped him the dragon keeper meet his final curtain.
With Theo cataloguing suspects from the counter, Constable Hale recruiting her to read rooms, and the town's retired postman confessing in numbered paragraphs, Fiona discovers the scavenger hunt was never a game. It's an evidence chain dressed as a party, and the tea witch is the only one following it in order.
Featuring:
✔ Tea witch heroine with corporate crisis management skills
✔ Talking Siamese familiar with three centuries of dry opinions
✔ Hidden coastal town not on any map
✔ Corrupted charms with missing limiters
✔ Steady carpenter boyfriend and a trusty screwdriver
✔ Found family and casserole-wielding neighbors
✔ Sweet and cozy paranormal mystery
Pour yourself a cup and settle in. Mystic Haven is waiting.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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