Kirsten Weiss
GENRE: Paranormal Women's Fiction Mystery
BLURB:
Seeker: As societies grow increasingly fragmented, hopelessness, nihilism, and division are on the rise. But there is another way—a way of mystery and magic, of wholeness and transformation. Do you dare take the first step? Our path is not for the faint-hearted, but for seekers of ancient truths...
All April wants is to start over after her husband’s sudden death. She’s conjuring a new path—finally getting her degree and planning her new business in bucolic Pennsylvania Dutch country. Joining an online mystery school seems like harmless fun.
But when a murdered man leaves her a cryptic message, she catches glimpses of another reality she’s unwilling to acknowledge. A reality where bygone enchantments cast cryptic shadows, and the present brims with unanswered questions.
As April works to unearth the mystery, every step brings her closer to a truth she’s been evading. And to a conspiracy of hexes that may end in her demise.
Legacy of the Witch is a spellbinding, interactive tale of a woman’s midlife quest to understand the complexities of her own heart. A paranormal women’s fiction murder mystery for anyone who’s wondered if there might be more to their own life than meets the eye…
Book 1 in the new Mystery School Series featuring the UnTarot, a deck of cards for meaning making. Start reading now!
UnTarot deck app included!
Purchase LEGACY OF THE WITCH on Amazon
Excerpt:
And there was someone inside the yellow coat. A silver-haired man.
For a moment I thought it was a bad joke, he wasn’t real. Then, heart banging, I hopped over the stone ledge.
Heedless of the brambles tugging at my clothes, of the muck squelching beneath my shoes, I stumbled to the supine man. He lay staring with one broad hand pressed to his chest. Blood stained his neck and pooled in the hollows around him.
“Oh my God,” I breathed, fumbling for the phone in my jacket pocket.
His head turned toward me, and I yelped.
I dropped to my knees beside him. “You’re alive. It’s okay. I’m calling for help now.” What had happened to him? Had he tripped and fallen? But what had he been doing in the circle?
“Can you put pressure on the wound?” I asked. If he couldn’t, I’d need to. I’d need a cloth, something to staunch the flow.
But first, help. Hands shaking, I called 9-1-1.
He lifted a hand and pointed toward the trees. “Look beneath,” he whispered. “The brotherhood.”
“It’s okay,” I said. “I’m calling now.” I pressed the phone to my ear. “I’m calling...” My voice faded.
His blue eyes grew as cold and impersonal as the Atlantic, and he stared without seeing at the sky. A thick dullness fogged my chest. I was too late. He was dead.
My Review:
Legacy of the Witch is the first book in a new series The Mystery School by Kirsten Weiss. Legacy of the Witch is steeped in mystery from the first page until the last.
It will have chopping at the bit wondering how it is going to end but wanting it to end is another matter altogether. It will keep you hanging on in suspense and wanting to know it all as you race to the end.
Legacy of the Witch starts off with a blast and never lets up from beginning to end. Legacy of the Witch opens with April taking a stroll through the woods when she encounters an injured man. April stops to help the man but it is too late as he dies in her arms.
The corner does not believe April when she tells him the time of death but she is very adamant about it all. April also tells the sheriff that the man spoke to her but of course, the ME did not believe her.
April is determined to find out what happened to the man. She joins an online mystery school. After joining the online class weird things start to happen. Things that April can’t comprehend or explain to anyone. What is going on? Is she losing her mind? Is she hallucinating? Is the things that she sees real or imaginative?
Legacy of the Witch is a great start to a new series. Legacy of the Witch has so much to offer. It has magic, mystery, suspense, and a deck of UnTarot cards.
Grab a copy of Legacy of the Witch today for a magical adventure full of mystery!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I believe in free-will, and that we all can make a difference. I believe that beauty blossoms in the conscious life, particularly with friends, family, and strangers. I believe that genre fiction has become generic, and it doesn’t have to be.
My current focus is my new Mystery School series, starting with Legacy of the Witch. Traditionally, women’s fiction refers to fiction where a woman—usually in her midlife—is going through some sort of dramatic change. A lot of us do go through big transitions in midlife. We get divorced or remarried. The kids leave the nest. Our bodies change. The midlife crisis is real—though it manifests in different ways—as we look back on where we’ve been, where we’re going, and the time we have left.
Now in my mid-fifties, I’ve spent more time thinking about the big “meaning of life” issues. It seemed like approaching those issues through witch fiction, and through a fictional mystery school, would be a fun and a useful way for me to work out some of these ideas in my own head—about change and letting go, faith and fear, and love and longing.
After growing up on a diet of Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie, I’ve published over 60 mysteries—from cozies to supernatural suspense, as well as an experimental fiction book on Tarot. Spending over 20 years working overseas in international development, I learned that perception is not reality, and things are often not what they seem—for better or worse.
There isn’t a winter holiday or a type of chocolate I don’t love, and some of my best friends are fictional.
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7 comments:
Thank you so much for reviewing this book today.
Thank you for sharing. The blurb and excerpt sound really interesting.
Great excerpt and cover.
Thank you for your review!
Kirsten
I love the cover and think the book looks good.
This looks like a brilliant read. Thanks for sharing.
sounds like a fun one
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