Cookies and Curses: A Sweet Paranormal Witch Cozy Mystery

Rosie Pease

Oct 2019 · Mixing Up Magic Book 1 · Paisley Press Books

About this ebook

As a matchmaking baker, customers flock to my cozy shop for the latest sweet treats and a chance to meet “the one.” I’ve never been wrong when it comes to cookies or love.

They say I’m a witch. That magic helps me do what I do. But I’m just Joanie Sunevall. If I really had powers, I’d have used them on my perpetually single self by now.

Ghosts, however, were never a part of my business plan. Yet, for reasons I can’t explain, spirits only I can see are coming between my latest couple, threatening to tear them apart.

Solving this mystery might be more than I can handle, but I have to try. My reputation and livelihood are on the line. The last thing I need is a distraction, but when a newcomer arrives in town, it has me wishing I really did have magic. So why do the ghosts seem as vested in keeping my couple apart as they do in my interest in this single dad?

It’s up to me to crack this case before everyone’s chance at a happily ever after crumbles, including my own.

Ghosts, it’s time to meet your baker.

Cookies and Curses is the enchanting first novel in the witchy Mixing Up Magic series, set in Heartwood Hollow, a cozy small-town full of supernatural secrets from the living and the dead. This delicious read is full of tasty treats, quirky characters, and one sassy calico cat.

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Perfect for readers of Molly Fitz, Angie Fox, Nic Saint, Adele Abbott, Leighann Dobbs, Samantha Silver, Sara Bourgeois, Kathi Daley, Addison Moore, Annabel Chase, Trixie Silvertale, Jane Hinchey, Amanda M. Lee, Erin Johnson, Jenn McKinlay, Steve Higgs, Tonya Kappes, Rita Mae Brown, Christine Pope, Amy Boyles, Lily Webb, Cindy Stark, Christine Zane Thomas, Silver Nord, Lia Davis, Elle Adams, Danielle Garrett, Morgana Best, Alyn Troy, Leanne Leeds, and Joanne Fluke.

Ratings and reviews

A quite enjoyable mystery, where no one is murdered. It just shows that a mystery can be just as good without a murderer to find. I like her main character and the world she lives and bakes in. Again, another trope discarded. Our heroine is not a struggling business owner. She has a successful bakery with a staff to help her. An enjoyable book with a little magic and a little ghost presence thrown in. I highly recommend it.

oh I so enjoyed this story the main character & her cat. lol the mystery has me on my toes the whole time just didn't know where it would go. you'll love it too

good book I will look for more like this

About the author

Rosie Pease is a native Rhode Islander who has also lived in Vermont, New York, and Ohio. She uses the places she’s traveled to as inspiration for the settings of her cozy mysteries, pulling the theater from one, the cider mill from another, and the river from yet another to create fictitious towns that feel familiar.

She collects Funko Pops of the Doctor Who, DC TV, and Marvel variety, with a few others thrown in for fun. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her daughter, hanging out with her husband, or being amused by her two ginger tabby goofballs.