Clean Reads Collection Paws & Pages

Three women. Three cats. One bookstore that has been keeping secrets longer than any of them have been alive.When a battered cardboard box appears in the storage room of The Dusty Page with no delivery note and no explanation, Hazel Quinn assumes it is just another oddity in a town full of them. Pine Grove, Texas is the kind of place where the gossip outruns the mail and the bookstore cats know more than the customers. But inside the box is a leather diary belonging to a girl who disappeared in 1994, photographs taken from inside a house no one should have entered, and a single line written in the back of a children's mystery: She is still here.Hazel does not chase trouble. Trouble has simply never had much trouble finding her.With her sharp-eyed friend Mae Lin Tran, her warm-hearted neighbor Jolie Rivera, and three opinionated cats who notice everything the humans miss, Hazel begins pulling at a thread that runs from a boarded-up farmhouse to a polished stranger in a gray coat to a forgotten room beneath her own bookstore. Someone wants the past stayed buried. Someone has been paid to make sure of it. And the cats have already decided whose side they are on.Paws & Pages is a slow-burn, deeply cozy mystery for readers who love small Texas towns, a cup of tea on every page, three very different women becoming the friends each one needed, and cats who solve more crimes than they get credit for.What you will find insideA warm bookstore setting you will want to live in Three distinct women whose friendship is the heart of the story A satisfying mystery with no graphic violence and no profanity A bonus feature in every chapter - recipes, tea guides, book club questions, journal prompts, a cozy cat field guide, and more A complete, satisfying ending - no cliffhanger cliff, no series trapPour the tea. Lock the front door. Open the diary.Pine Grove is ready for you.