Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Tessa Silver
Feathers of Fading Magic
Series: A Quillhaven Cozy Mystery (the series can be read in any order)
The Book:
Veterinary assistant Meredith Lee has never met a problem she couldn't explain—until a wildlife ranger named Finn Flaherty walks into the Kindred Creatures Refuge carrying an injured owl whose feathers have gone the color of ash. Something is wrong in Quillhaven. The animals have gone quiet, and the forest seems to be holding its breath.
Quillhaven is a magical New England town protected for generations by an unseen Boundary—and that Boundary is unraveling, thread by thread. When a young runaway named Sylvie Brooks stumbles out of the forest cradling something impossible—a mother Phoenix and her fledglings, all of them fading fast—the town's carefully tended magic stops being a private matter and becomes everyone's problem. Meredith, who trusts what she can measure, suddenly can't explain a single thing she's seeing.
From the shelves of local witch Annie Hart's shop, Spellbound Stories, to a desperate healing ritual at the disintegrating eastern ridge, an unlikely band of Quillhaven residents—magical and otherwise—races to restore what's been neglected before it slips away for good. There's the ashen owl, the failing Phoenix and her fledglings, a runaway with a secret, and a refuge full of creatures depending on people who barely understand the magic they're trying to save. Underneath the mystery, it's a story about belonging, legacy, healing, and the surprising courage it takes to open your mind to the impossible.
What Readers Are Saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Tessa Silver's stories are like mini vacations to cozy, paranormal Quillhaven." — Amazon reviewer
“A magical New England town where the animals have gone quiet and the Boundary is coming undone, an owl with ashen feathers, and a fading Phoenix in the arms of a runaway girl. Soft, playful magic wrapped around a real mystery is exactly the kind of thing I love finding in summer, and the fact that you can start this series anywhere makes it dangerously easy to fall in. If you like your cozies with a little enchantment and a whole lot of heart, this one’s going straight to the top of my TBR.”
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