Rowan Bell finally reopened her grandmother's shop. She did not expect to find a body in the greenhouse behind it.

Victor Langley — developer, buyer of half the town's old buildings, and a man with no shortage of enemies — is dead among the moonflowers, killed with the one knife in Eureka Springs, Arkansas that everyone knows belongs to Rowan's family. By morning, she's the prime suspect in a murder she didn't commit, with a detective who isn't buying her alibi and a town that's already decided what it thinks it saw.

She has an ally no one else can see: Eleanor Blackwood, a ghost with a century of opinions, a wardrobe that never changes, and absolutely no patience for Rowan's coffee mug. She has a companion who thumps out warnings from beneath the counter: Bramble, an enormous rabbit with a very serious face and even more serious instincts. And she has a town built on more than it lets tourists see — sealed passages, old family secrets, and a preservation society with a founding date older than anyone still living.

To clear her name, Rowan will have to do the one thing she's spent her whole life avoiding: trust the gift she inherited right alongside the shop. Because the dead remember things the living can't — and someone in Eureka Springs has been trusted for decades by people who had no idea what they were trusting.

A slow-burn romance, a genuinely fair-play mystery, and a town with real teeth beneath its charm — for readers who want their cozy with a little more shadow in it.

Bell, Book, and Moonflower is Book One in The Haunted Herb Shop of Eureka Springs. Start with the free prequel, What the Spring Remembers, or dive straight in here.