A magical greenhouse. A string of mysterious poisonings. A secret someone would kill to protect.

Nora Alden is finally settling into her role as Anchor of Harborside, Maine—tending the ley lines beneath her botanical shop, rebuilding trust with her found family, and navigating a tentative, slow-burn romance with Detective Liam Croft. But when members of the interim town council start collapsing with symptoms of lethargy and memory fog, the scent of rosemary lingers at every scene. Someone is using her late grandmother's own botanical techniques to destabilize the town's leadership, and the evidence points straight to Eleanor's inner circle.

With her sarcastic cat familiar recovering from injury and her own memories at risk every time she uses her magical abilities, Nora must rely on her auditor's instincts to trace a paper trail through nursery invoices, soil records, and old gardening journals. But a disgraced former councilman is weaponizing the chaos to seize her greenhouse, and the detective she's falling for is hiding evidence to protect her. As the Autumn Harvest Festival looms, Nora faces an impossible choice: solve the mystery without magic and risk losing everything, or embrace her power and lose the memories of the people she loves.

A warm, witty cozy fantasy mystery where the clues are fair, the stakes are personal, and the magic always comes with a cost.