Death by the Pumpkin Moon

Daphne Carter knows how to read a room, a record, and a lie. She's come home to Maples Hollow to help her aunt's spice stand through the Harvest Moon Festival, expecting old memories, cold nights, and a few familiar grudges.Instead, she finds Silas Pritchard dead in the catapult basket, posed like an offering and surrounded by symbols everyone in town is too quick to call a curse. But Daphne doesn't believe in curses. She believes in documents, patterns, and the dangerous things people hide when they think tradition will protect them.As she follows a trail of burned records, forged boundaries, and polished smiles, Daphne discovers that the murder is tangled up with a land dispute powerful enough to ruin reputations-and maybe kill again. In Maple Hollow, folklore is more than a story. It's a weapon. And someone has spent years learning exactly how to use it.