Small town. Warm lights. Cold secrets.

Welcome to Brazierton, Virginia — a town of candlelit windows, cherished traditions, and neighbors who know each other's business a little too well. People come home to Brazierton. Some of them never leave, though not always by choice: this is also a town where a death can be called natural when it was nothing of the kind, and the truth can hide in plain sight for years.

Nora Collier came for a quieter life. After twenty years investigating fires and fraud, she inherited her great-aunt Posy's candle shop — and Posy's other legacy: Nora can read ash. Not the future, and never the whole truth. She feels the strongest emotion left behind by whatever burned, and feelings can mislead. So she does what she has always done — she follows the evidence, clue by fair-play clue, with an investigator's discipline and one lazy, observant black cat who is never where the trouble isn't.

The Brazierton Mysteries are paranormal cozy mysteries with a ticking clock: every clue is on the page, every case is solved in full, and nothing in Brazierton stays buried once the ember is lit. If you love warm small towns, seasoned heroines, fair-play whodunits, and just enough of the supernatural to raise the hair on your arms — come for the candles. Stay for the secrets.

Start one. Finish them all.

Book One: The First Lighting — a keeper found dead, a town too ready to call it natural causes, and a festival deadline.