A Spell of Rowans

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>Swathed in small-town gossip and values the fantastical novel - combines murder mystery magic and mayhem for an exciting tour of a family's history and trauma.</em> - 5 stars Clarion review</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>As children Mother twisted our magic as part of her games.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>My talent for reading other people's feelings my sister who could charm men and my brother who knows with a touch the history of any object</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>But Troubles and Magic comes in Threes.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>But when I returned to Grimsby to settle the estate the police hauled in my autistic brother for questioning. And my sister knows what Mother was really doing at her antiques shop Rosemary Thyme. Hint: Nothing good.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>And that hometown boy I dumped way back after high school? He's in Grimsby and thinks he knows the truth about me.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>- as Vic gets closer to her mother's killer using her power becomes a double-edged sword: the whirlwind of truths and lies threatens to entrap and drown her even as her special abilities help her get to the bottom of the various unsolved mysteries.</em> - 5 stars Clarion review</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>A Spell of Rowans is an entertaining moving story that readers of family sagas sibling dynamics and fantasy set in our contemporary world will enjoy.</em> - Booklife</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>NOTE</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> Trigger warnings for discussion of child abuse and trauma with an assault scene suicide and some cursing.</em></p><p></p>