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Jessica Lavender’s mundane life as a baker is upended when she returns to her childhood home in Good Fortune following her mother’s death. She quickly discovers she is a late-blooming witch with a sarcastic talking cat named Maestro as her familiar. Her transition into the supernatural is interrupted by a gruesome discovery: a neighbor's body is buried in her mother’s garden. As Jess navigates the complexities of her new magical heritage and her role as the town’s new apothecary owner, she must solve a murder that threatens her mother’s legacy. With the ghost of her mother guiding her and a handsome local police officer providing both professional tension and romantic potential, Jess uses her budding potion-making skills to uncover dark secrets in a town where nothing is as it seems. Comparable works include Laguna Bay Midlife Witch Cozy Mystery series, The Witch P.I. Mysteries, Magical Midlife Madness, Mitzy Moon Mysteries