A Haunting Is Brewing: A Haunted Home Renovation and a Witchcraft Mystery Novella (11 page)

Which reminded me . . .

“Carlos, hold on. Didn’t you say something about a missing child?”

“Fourteen-year-old Selena Moreno. We’re not positive she’s missing . . . Weird thing is, we can’t get a word out of Ursula. But according to the neighbors, Selena used to live with her grandmother. Hasn’t shown up to school, but it looks like her attendance has always been spotty, so it’s hard to say what’s going on there. Most likely she’s staying with relatives, but I’d feel better knowing for sure.”

“Do you think something in the shop might point me in her direction?”

“You know me, Lily. I don’t think anything in particular.”

“But you’re suspicious of everything.”

He gave me a wink and a smile.

Juliet Blackwell
is the pseudonym for the
New York Times
bestselling mystery author who also writes the Witchcraft Mystery series, the Haunted Home Renovation series, and, together with her sister, wrote the Art Lover’s Mystery series as Hailey Lind. The first in that series,
Feint of Art
, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. As owner of her own faux-finish and design studio, the author has spent many days and nights on construction sites renovating beautiful historic homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently resides in a happily haunted house in Oakland, California.