Problems from Potions
(2026)(The tenth book in the Mystic Haven Tea Shop Mystery series)
A novel by Kat McGee
Fiona Shaw used to manage celebrity disasters for a living. Accidentally brewing the potion found beside a dead man feels a little above her former pay grade.
At forty-five, Fiona is still adjusting to the fact that her fresh start came with fog, witchcraft, and an enchanted tea shop that appears to have opinions. Mystic Haven should be quiet enough for her to learn the difference between chamomile and catastrophe. Then her first luck potion goes sideways.
The blend was supposed to offer gentle nudges toward good fortune. Instead, one spilled ingredient turns it into wish magic with a terrible sense of humor. When smooth-talking con man Silas Croft steals a vial and starts selling charmed trinkets around town, Fiona has barely started triage before he turns up dead on the tea shop's back steps.
Now every borrowed bit of luck in Mystic Haven is sending the bill. Customers are crashing from miracles into misfortune, a severe Council inspector is watching Fiona's every move, and Theo, her three-hundred-year-old Siamese familiar, keeps offering commentary that somehow fails to count as useful paperwork.
With cheerful tea witch Juniper beside her, Fiona has to follow a trail of cheated customers, dangerous bargains, and grudges that have steeped far too long. If she cannot untangle the murder and reverse the spell, she could lose her freedom, her shop, and the first place that has started to feel like hers.
Fiona can fix a public scandal in her sleep. A magical one with her fingerprints on it may require a stronger blend.
Featuring:
✓ Midlife magical awakening
✓ Fish-out-of-water witch
✓ Inherited magical tea shop
✓ Amateur sleuth under suspicion
✓ Accidental magic gone wrong
✓ Talking Siamese cat familiar
✓ Found family
✓ Quirky small-town suspects
Follow Fiona into Mystic Haven for a luck potion with terrible timing, a con man's final trick, and a familiar who considers restraint a personal failing.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
At forty-five, Fiona is still adjusting to the fact that her fresh start came with fog, witchcraft, and an enchanted tea shop that appears to have opinions. Mystic Haven should be quiet enough for her to learn the difference between chamomile and catastrophe. Then her first luck potion goes sideways.
The blend was supposed to offer gentle nudges toward good fortune. Instead, one spilled ingredient turns it into wish magic with a terrible sense of humor. When smooth-talking con man Silas Croft steals a vial and starts selling charmed trinkets around town, Fiona has barely started triage before he turns up dead on the tea shop's back steps.
Now every borrowed bit of luck in Mystic Haven is sending the bill. Customers are crashing from miracles into misfortune, a severe Council inspector is watching Fiona's every move, and Theo, her three-hundred-year-old Siamese familiar, keeps offering commentary that somehow fails to count as useful paperwork.
With cheerful tea witch Juniper beside her, Fiona has to follow a trail of cheated customers, dangerous bargains, and grudges that have steeped far too long. If she cannot untangle the murder and reverse the spell, she could lose her freedom, her shop, and the first place that has started to feel like hers.
Fiona can fix a public scandal in her sleep. A magical one with her fingerprints on it may require a stronger blend.
Featuring:
✓ Midlife magical awakening
✓ Fish-out-of-water witch
✓ Inherited magical tea shop
✓ Amateur sleuth under suspicion
✓ Accidental magic gone wrong
✓ Talking Siamese cat familiar
✓ Found family
✓ Quirky small-town suspects
Follow Fiona into Mystic Haven for a luck potion with terrible timing, a con man's final trick, and a familiar who considers restraint a personal failing.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Used availability for Kat McGee's Problems from Potions