Candles & Chronicles
(2026)(The sixth book in the Whispering Falls: Cozy Magical Cat Mystery series)
A novel by Hazel Whitmore
She's trained enough to be dangerous now. The question is whether she's trained enough to be safe.Clara Mercer has spent nearly a year learning that magic doesn't come with an instruction manual... just fragments. Half-legible journals. Spellbooks in hands nobody can name. Whatever the falls choose to give her, when they choose to give it.
She's gotten good at it. Maybe too good, or too confident in what "good" actually means when you're teaching yourself from scraps.
Autumn has settled over Whispering Falls, and Mystic Aromas has slowed into its quiet season, which means the back rooms are full of old journals waiting to be cataloged, candles waiting to be poured, and a budding coven of brand-new witches with more curiosity than caution. Into this arrives a journalist with a notebook, a warm smile, and a regional history piece that isn't quite the whole truth of why she's here.
Clara doesn't see the danger coming from the notebook.
She sees it coming from herself.
When ambition outpaces training, the consequences don't stay private, and the found family that has learned to trust her judgment has to reckon with what happens when the most careful person among them stops being careful.
Meanwhile, seven cats notice everything long before the humans catch up, a journalist gets closer to the truth than anyone intended, and an old memory Margaret didn't know she still carried comes loose at exactly the wrong or right moment.
Candles & Chronicles is Book 6 of the Whispering Falls: Cozy Magical Cat Mysteries series — a slow-burn paranormal cozy for readers who want their magic real, their cats opinionated, and their consequences earned.
Some lessons only teach you after you've already made the mistake.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
She's gotten good at it. Maybe too good, or too confident in what "good" actually means when you're teaching yourself from scraps.
Autumn has settled over Whispering Falls, and Mystic Aromas has slowed into its quiet season, which means the back rooms are full of old journals waiting to be cataloged, candles waiting to be poured, and a budding coven of brand-new witches with more curiosity than caution. Into this arrives a journalist with a notebook, a warm smile, and a regional history piece that isn't quite the whole truth of why she's here.
Clara doesn't see the danger coming from the notebook.
She sees it coming from herself.
When ambition outpaces training, the consequences don't stay private, and the found family that has learned to trust her judgment has to reckon with what happens when the most careful person among them stops being careful.
Meanwhile, seven cats notice everything long before the humans catch up, a journalist gets closer to the truth than anyone intended, and an old memory Margaret didn't know she still carried comes loose at exactly the wrong or right moment.
Candles & Chronicles is Book 6 of the Whispering Falls: Cozy Magical Cat Mysteries series — a slow-burn paranormal cozy for readers who want their magic real, their cats opinionated, and their consequences earned.
Some lessons only teach you after you've already made the mistake.
Genre: Cozy Mystery