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(2025)Mysteries of Meri
(Book 28 in the Familiar Kitten Mystery series)
A novel by Sara Bourgeois
Welcome to Coventry
Hekate Wilson has spent the last decade convincing herself she's not crazy. The medications help. The therapists help. Even her skepticism helps. But none of it stops her from seeing a snarky black cat that no one else can see, or dampens her inexplicable affinity for poisonous plants.
At least her life has some semblance of routine - sorting mail by day, apprenticing at a tattoo parlor by night, and somehow finding time to nurture the small jungle of questionable flora she grows in her rented trailer. Sure, her sort-of friend and roommate Eliza thinks she's weird, but who isn't a little weird these days?
Then the trailer burns down. Not that Hekate's particularly sorry about that.
With nowhere else to go, Hekate is forced to return to Coventry, the town she fled at eighteen. The town where her perfectly proper family still lives. The town that's home to a whole lot of memories she's not sure are real - memories that hint at a darkness she once embraced.
But her homecoming takes a deadly turn when a body is discovered near Hangman's House - exactly where Hekate was seen wandering the night before, apparently talking to thin air. Suddenly, she's the prime suspect in a murder investigation, and her "hallucinations" aren't helping her case. Neither is her complete lack of an alibi or her tendency to smirk at all the wrong moments.
Coventry isn't your typical small town, though, and Hekate's "hallucinations" might not be hallucinations at all. As her carefully constructed reality begins to unravel, she starts to question everything - including why her mother's familiar, Meri, seems to be the only "hallucination" she's ever had, and why she's starting to enjoy their conversations about revenge a little too much.
Something dark is stirring in Coventry, and it's calling to the magic in Hekate's blood. Magic she's spent ten years denying. Magic that might be the only thing keeping her from becoming the killer's next victim - or worse, helping her discover she likes the darkness calling her name.
Welcome back to Coventry. The events in this story take place ten years after Hekate left town. While this book is part of the Familiar Kitten universe, it can be enjoyed on its own. You'll find no gore, swearing, or adult situations, but you will find magic, mystery, and a cat who refuses to be ignored - whether he's real or not.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Hekate Wilson has spent the last decade convincing herself she's not crazy. The medications help. The therapists help. Even her skepticism helps. But none of it stops her from seeing a snarky black cat that no one else can see, or dampens her inexplicable affinity for poisonous plants.
At least her life has some semblance of routine - sorting mail by day, apprenticing at a tattoo parlor by night, and somehow finding time to nurture the small jungle of questionable flora she grows in her rented trailer. Sure, her sort-of friend and roommate Eliza thinks she's weird, but who isn't a little weird these days?
Then the trailer burns down. Not that Hekate's particularly sorry about that.
With nowhere else to go, Hekate is forced to return to Coventry, the town she fled at eighteen. The town where her perfectly proper family still lives. The town that's home to a whole lot of memories she's not sure are real - memories that hint at a darkness she once embraced.
But her homecoming takes a deadly turn when a body is discovered near Hangman's House - exactly where Hekate was seen wandering the night before, apparently talking to thin air. Suddenly, she's the prime suspect in a murder investigation, and her "hallucinations" aren't helping her case. Neither is her complete lack of an alibi or her tendency to smirk at all the wrong moments.
Coventry isn't your typical small town, though, and Hekate's "hallucinations" might not be hallucinations at all. As her carefully constructed reality begins to unravel, she starts to question everything - including why her mother's familiar, Meri, seems to be the only "hallucination" she's ever had, and why she's starting to enjoy their conversations about revenge a little too much.
Something dark is stirring in Coventry, and it's calling to the magic in Hekate's blood. Magic she's spent ten years denying. Magic that might be the only thing keeping her from becoming the killer's next victim - or worse, helping her discover she likes the darkness calling her name.
Welcome back to Coventry. The events in this story take place ten years after Hekate left town. While this book is part of the Familiar Kitten universe, it can be enjoyed on its own. You'll find no gore, swearing, or adult situations, but you will find magic, mystery, and a cat who refuses to be ignored - whether he's real or not.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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