Hex in the Machine: A MacWitch Mystery

Welcome to Willowford, where everyone knows your name, magic is an everyday inconvenience, and gossip travels considerably faster than the speed of light.

Personally, I can handle the gossip. It's the spells that trip me up.

I'm Mari Hightower, owner of Books & Brews, proud descendant of one of the most powerful magical families in history... and living proof that talent sometimes skips a generation. My spells glitch, gravity has a personal vendetta against me, and my mother has spent years wishing I'd inherited literally anyone else's magical abilities.

Still, life in Willowford is usually pretty predictable.

Until I accidentally tether a demon to my laptop.

Not artificial intelligence. Actual demon. I know, right?

Now he's my unwanted digital familiar, impossible to get rid of, annoyingly helpful, and entirely too entertained by my increasingly chaotic life.

Which becomes significantly more chaotic when someone is murdered in my coffee shop.

With no motive, almost no evidence, and a killer who seems determined to stay several steps ahead, Sheriff Ivy Caldwell has her hands full. My best friend Nate keeps trying to stop me from investigating. Birdie LaRue, Willowford's most delightfully dramatic senior citizen, is suddenly nowhere to be found. And while the whole town argues over politics, magic, and who makes the best pecan pie, I'm beginning to suspect the answers lie buried in secrets that should have stayed buried.

Good thing I've never been particularly good at minding my own business.

Hex in the Machine is the first MacWitch Mystery, where clean, paranormal cozy mystery meets laugh-out-loud humor, found family, quirky small-town charm, and characters you'll wish lived just down the street.

Come visit Willowford.

The coffee's hot.

The books are plentiful.

The demon is house-trained.

Mostly.