A MURDER IN THE MAKING

A Washington, D.C., investigator with an unusual past becomes enmeshed in a murder mystery that tests her loyalties and reveals unsettling secrets about the people and world she thought she knew.

Dovey Van Dalen is just an ordinary PI to most people who know her, but she’s actually a “mystic investigator,” retrieving magical objects that fall into non-magical hands. Some 180 years ago, as a young society girl in Copenhagen, Denmark, she met Elric, the jealous mystic who bound her to him as his lover and spell-casting pupil. Now 200 years old and the owner of an enchanted hedgehog who doubles as her personal stylist, Dovey has fallen in love with FBI agent Grant “Gib” Barlow, whom she met while investigating a spellcasting trinket from her world used to murder people in his. Her feelings for Gib are undeniably strong, yet she avoids him for fear of incurring Elric’s murderous wrath. When a matchmaking friend manipulates Dovey into a date with Gib, she learns from him that another FBI agent has had every bone crushed in his body. Immediately, Dovey suspects that Elric or another very powerful mystic is behind the crime and launches a private investigation at Elric’s company to find answers. Blending elements of romance, fantasy, and suspense, Laurie creates a fast-paced, ever-twisting narrative that moves between two parallel worlds bound in sometimes-dangerous ways through the interactions of mystics, mortals and magical creatures. The closer Dovey gets to the truth, the more she peels back layers of deception involving powerful stolen trinkets, secret love triangles, hidden identities and plots to disrupt the delicate balance of power between spellbound mystics and unbound humans.

Captivating supernatural suspense laced with romantic intrigue.