The Crystal Witness

The vibrant chaos of Autumn Fest is shattered when Madam Rose Quartz, the town’s beloved psychic, is found murdered—impaled by her own ornate crystal wand. With the police baffled and the festive atmosphere now thick with fear, they turn to their only hope: local occult scholar Chally Wells.

A pragmatic woman who treats magic as a system of logic, Chally is an outsider to both the spiritual community and the skeptical police force. Her only leads are the victim’s collection of enchanted crystals, silent witnesses humming with residual energy. To solve the crime, she must do the impossible: learn their language.

But the stones reveal more than a single killer. They whisper of a poisonous family secret and the shadow of a ruthless criminal syndicate operating in plain sight. As Chally pieces together a conspiracy far deadlier than anyone imagined, she faces a race against time. She must convince the living to trust the testimony of the dead, or her own name will be the next to be etched in stone.