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A curse stole one witch’s powers, but gave her the ability to speak with animals. Now Jolene helps a hunky police officer and his sassy, lie-detecting canine solve paranormal mysteries.
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Contents
Pig Little Lies
About Pig Little Lies
1. The Summit
2. Pyramid
3. The Harder They Fall
4. Familiar Face
5. Willing and Able
6. The Body
7. Opal
8. Tact
9. Papa Ralph
10. The Pig
11. Avery Ann
12. Peyton Thornsbury
13. Peter and Jolene
14. The Clinic
15. Potent Potions Party
16. Open Up!
17. The Protestor
18. Poisoned
19. Arrested
20. A New Lead
21. Maria Wu
22. The Lizard
23. Family
24. All In
25. Lies
26. Madeline L’Orange
27. New Evidence
28. Sisters
29. Solved
30. Making a Break for It
31. Caught
32. Hexmakers
33. A Confession
34. Together
Breaking Bat
About Breaking Bat
1. A New Case
2. Bridal Suite
3. Mr. and Mrs. Harrington
4. Sneezy
5. Chaz
6. Cybil
7. Joe Santos
8. Rachel Whitmore
9. Will and Heidi
10. Alabaster Monroe
11. Family Crest
12. Bartholomew the Bat
13. P.I.
14. The Diary
15. Strawberries
16. Animal Rights
17. La Mer Magazine
18. Cybil
19. Dig up Dirt
20. Spin
21. Writing's on the wall
22. Blast from the past
23. Undertow
24. Evidence
25. A Confession
The Squawking Dead
About The Squawking Dead
1. Crab Puffs
2. Up in Flames
3. Dead, Dead, Goose
4. Blowing Smoke
5. The Murder Weapon
6. Lemurs!
7. Quincy
8. The Plot Thickens
9. Phoenix Nest
10. Mark
11. The Blow gun
12. Darts
13. Stolen Wombat
14. Libbie
15. Rebecca
16. Pushed to the Edge
17. The Boys
18. Will and Heidi
19. Coffee
20. Monkey
21. The Jungle
22. Sloth
23. WWAAC
24. Zane Perez
25. Madeline
26. The Bodega
27. The Phoenix
28. Underground Animal Rescue
29. Photo Finish
30. The Photograph
31. Habits
32. Records
33. Hexmakers' Lair
34. Decision
The Big Fang Theory
About The Big Fang Theory
1. The Competition
2. Murder
3. Polly Pierre
4. Twins
5. Suspects
6. Frank
7. Spilling the Tea
8. Rally
9. Boo! Hiss!
10. Chaos at the Castle
11. The Royal Bakery
12. Shifter Secrets
13. Cat
14. Teaming Up
15. The Door
16. Missing
17. The Clinic
18. Parting Ways
19. The Lair
20. Villains
21. Missing Snake
22. Police Station
23. Tonya
24. Elin
25. Lorenzo
26. Mimi Moulin
27. Sourdough
28. Vince Dupont
29. Neo and the boys
30. A Cure
31. Inspiration
32. The Teacup
33. McCray
34. An Accusation
35. The Plan
36. Ludolf Caterwaul
37. A Red Heron
38. Sam
39. Starters and Enders
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Pig Little Lies
A Cozy Witch Mystery
About Pig Little Lies
An elixir party gone sour. An expired entrepreneur. Can a cursed shifter discover what’s in love potion number crime?
After confessing her dark secret, Jolene is left devastated when he
r cop-crush, Peter, ghosts her. But when a popular potion maker drinks her last draught, Jolene and Peter are forced to team up to find the butcher behind the brew.
As the list of suspects pours in, Jolene's only hope is to get the victim's pet swine to squeal. But when Jolene piggybacks onto a promising lead, she learns some shocking truths about the cursed tonic that took away her own magic.
Can Jolene put a cork in the killer before she’s drained of her last drop?
Pig Little Lies is the fifth book in the bewitching Magic Market paranormal cozy mystery series. If you like magical mysteries, hilarious heroines, and a dash of romance, then you’ll love Erin Johnson’s captivating tale.
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1
The Summit
Will and I sauntered up the steep road toward Heidi, who stood in front of two open, intricate iron gates. She tapped her toe, arms crossed and brow pinched.
I elbowed Will. “I think we’re in trouble.”
She glanced up, and her eyes widened when she saw us. She huffed, then waved us forward. “Come on, hurry.” She flashed her eyes at us. “You guys are late.”
She squeezed between us and linked her arms through ours, then dragged us forward up the even cobblestones and through the gate. The path wound up, snaking through lush landscaping, elegantly lit by magically glowing torches.
Will, my enormous bear shifter friend, sniffed as he let the much smaller Heidi drag him forward. “We would have been here sooner, sister, if you’d actually been at the clinic to do your job.” He arched a bushy brow. “I had to check on all the patients and lock up by myself.”
She tossed her head, and her curled side pony flew back over her shoulder. “I told you. I have no opportunity for growth there.”
Will flashed his huge brown eyes at her. “Oh! You just have the opportunity to put food in your mouth and buy more of those spandex shorts you seem so fond of.”
I smirked, but she kept her nose in the air and ignored his comment. “Like I told you guys, I’ve been invited to join in an exciting new business opportunity.” She grinned and bounced on her toes. “Once you guys see, I’m sure you’re going to want in, too!”
I looked over Heidi’s head and arched a brow at Will. “She’s sure.”
He scoffed. “That makes one of us.”
“Guys, come on!” Heidi let out an annoyed sigh. “This summit is a big deal. They only do it once a year, and people come from all over the kingdoms to attend.”
“And what is this summit exactly?”
Heidi dragged us through the winding path up to the hotel. She hadn’t been able to shut up about the event all week, and I’d assumed a lot of her hype had been exaggerated. When she said a friend of hers couldn’t attend because she’d gotten sick and gave her two extra tickets, Will and I had begrudgingly agreed to go.
But I suddenly felt a bit out of place in my normal torn jeans and faded vintage band tee. This hotel was on a top tier of Bijou Mer, and any place with an entryway this lush and mysterious had to be pretty posh. Could this business opportunity be legit? Should I have—oh, the horror—actually put in some effort?
Heidi’s white heels clicked along the cobblestones, and I had to admit she looked professional in her fitted white dress and white blazer. “The summit is a chance to mingle with fellow entrepreneurs, be inspired by motivational speeches, and get in on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing businesses in the kingdoms.”
Will and I exchanged flat looks.
I nudged Heidi. “How long did it take you to memorize that?”
Will huffed. “Yeah. And why can you remember that, but forget to order more of that enchanted cat food for the clinic, hm?”
Heidi pressed her eyes shut for a moment, then opened them and sucked in a sharp breath through her nose. “It’s fine. They told us friends and family probably wouldn’t understand my newfound drive and success.” She shot us sympathetic looks. “It’s understandable that you’re envious.”
Will looked like he was about to spontaneously shift and maul her. I cleared my throat to get his attention, then flashed my eyes at him. Heidi was young and sweet but fairly impressionable. She hadn’t been chewed up and spit out by the world yet like Will and I had.
We emerged from the path with its lush, overhanging trees and bushes and caught our first view of the hotel. A wide courtyard stretched in front of us, a marble fountain spewing water lit gold and silver in the center.
Above it, stone steps led up to the towering building, which looked stately and elegant, all covered in vines. Huge glass doors spilled golden light into the night, glittering chandeliers visible inside. Yeah. My stomach sank. I was definitely underdressed.
But just as I was starting to regret my fashion choices, my eyes landed on the enormous banner hung above the hotel’s entrance.
Welcome to the Potent Potions Third Annual Summit!
I stopped dead, and Heidi and Will came to a jerking halt beside me, our arms still linked.
Muted voices drifted our way, and I spotted a group of women just outside the hotel entrance, pumping signs in their hands, chanting something I couldn’t quite make out. Didn’t need to, though.
I shook my head. “Nuh-uh.”
Heidi cocked her head. “What?”
“Nope.” I pulled my arm free and raised my brows at Will. “Read the banner.”
My friend followed my gaze, squinting to read it. His nostrils flared, and his expression went flat as he turned to Heidi. “This is a Potent Potions event?”
She squared her shoulders. “So?”
I threw an arm toward the hotel and the agitated group of women outside it. “See the group of angry protestors? That should clue you in to what you’ve gotten yourself involved in.”
Will pinched the bridge of his nose. “Oh, goddess. Tell me you haven’t bought into it already.”
Twin pink spots burned on Heidi’s cheeks.
I sighed. “Have fun—I’m going home.” I spun on my heel and marched back the way we’d just come.
2
Pyramid
I was more annoyed with myself than with Heidi for allowing myself to be duped. I stomped away from the fancy hotel and the summit for the less-than-legit company Heidi had invited me to.
It’d been just over a month since I’d confessed the whole of my screwed-up situation to Officer Peter Flint. I’d already told him that I’d been cursed by a jealous former coworker and as a result had lost my magical powers, my career as a lawyer, as well as all my friends and possessions. And Peter had taken it in stride—even got indignant for me.
But I’d finally worked up the courage to tell him the last bit—that I was a shifter and that the curse had reacted to my powers and given me the ability to speak to animals. He’d enjoyed the speaking to animals part, as it allowed me to translate for him and his lie-sniffing canine partner, Daisy. But the shifter thing hadn’t gone down so well.
Magical folk on our island were prejudiced against shifters, and while I’d hoped Peter would be different, it hadn’t turned out that way. As a cop, he’d had enough bad experiences with shifters to make assumptions that we were all the same.
The thing was, while it wasn’t technically illegal to be a shifter, people were allowed to deny shifters housing and jobs for being who we were, and the justice system kept us in a blind spot. Which meant we had to look after our own, and mob boss Ludolf Caterwaul had stepped in to fill the role of king, judge, police, and loan shark for shifters as a whole.
I’d done my best in life to avoid being under his thumb, but working with Peter, a cop, had broken a lot of shifter rules, and I was under more scrutiny than ever. And now that Peter wasn’t speaking to me or bringing me in on police consultant jobs, I was back to struggling to make ends meet.
And while my fake pet psychic business had picked up a little from word spreading around my corner of the Darkmoon District about the police hiring me for my talents, I wasn’t bringing in nearly the money I earn
ed as a consultant for the cops.