Familiar Trouble: A Hearthwind Dene Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Book One of the Hearthwind Dene Paranormal Cozy Mysteries. A complete six-book series. Fern Thymewell isn’t a witch. She has no magic, no wards, and no enchanted tracking spells. What she has is a grooming kit, a bestiary, and a kleptomaniac ferret. Anxious pixie-dragons, an Abyssinian witch-cat with opinions, and eight years behind a grooming table have taught her that a mage will say things to the woman grooming their familiar that they’d never say to the Town Guardian. Then the five Founders’ Collars vanish from Briarwell Academy, eleven days before the ceremony that binds twelve students to their familiars for life. And the finger of blame points at the gentlest man in the Dene. Getting to the truth means working her appointment book like an interrogation, keeping her ferret from stealing the evidence, and getting around Corbin Vance, who's guarded this town for ten years and would much rather she left it to him. Eleven days. Twelve students. One groomer with no magic at all. For readers of Vivian Aare, Bailey Cates, and Travis Baldree.