Intermezzo: Business Matters

(A Wisteria Tearoom Interlude)
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Why is change such a challenge?

As winter gives way to spring, Ellen Rosings’s life is in upheaval. She’s about to move out of her suite in the Wisteria Tearoom and into the townhome she will share with her fiancé, Tony—if he’s ever there. All the tearoom’s offices are shifting around like a Chinese puzzle. They need to hire a new manager for the gift shop—and oh, yes, they need another server, too—and what will they do about music for St. Patrick’s Day?

Amid these distractions Ellen is hunting for the pistol ball that killed the tearoom’s resident ghost, Captain Dusenberry. She is also hunting for the perfect wedding venue, which proves to be a struggle. Friends and family suggest places but they all fall short. Should she settle for less than her dreams? Or can she humbly accept help from an unexpected source to make them come true?

This is a novella, a companion story to the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries series. It is recommended that you read A Valentine for One (book 8) before reading this story.

Bright Morning

An Anthology of Hopeful Tales
In Honor of Vonda N. McIntyre
Deborah J. Ross, editor

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Eleven career writers of science fiction, fantasy, and other genres share stories of hope in McIntyre’s honor, along with their memories of working with her. Profits from the anthology will benefit a charity that promotes literacy for children all over the world.

Featuring stories by:

Jeffrey A. Carver – Amy Sterling Casil – Leah Cutter
Doranna Durgin – Steven Harper – Nancy Jane Moore
Pati Nagle – Gillian Polack – Madeleine E. Robins
Deborah J. Ross – Judith Tarr

(Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries, Book 8)
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262 pages

Published August 10, 2021

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262 pages

The death of Gabriel Rhodes on Halloween night sent a shock through the Santa Fe Goth community. Three months later, the fallout continues.

Ellen Rosings is too busy for dead bodies. With a wedding to plan, a move to organize, and business at the Wisteria Tearoom ramping up for Valentine’s Day, the last thing she needs is another corpse to deal with. She is far more interested in solving the murder of Captain Dusenberry over a hundred years ago than in finding fresh victims.

Alas, her plans are doomed to disruption. A body appears, and this time not only is it someone she knew…the evidence points to a member of the tearoom’s staff.

(Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries, Book 6)
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Mystery fans will be thrilled to learn that Patrice Greenwood’s next Wisteria Tearoom novel is due to be released on November 14. This sixth excursion to the Santa Fe series takes the reader through the Christmas holiday season with traditional celebrations, visits to local restaurants, cookie-baking frenzy, and of course, a murder or two. As always, the novel includes a tasty recipe from the author’s own collection.

Yuletide in Santa Fe: biscochitos, farolitos, Las Posadas, music…and murder.

Ellen Rosings does not have time for murder investigations. It’s December, and the Wisteria Tearoom is awash in shoppers, cookies, and groups of strange women brought to tea by the eccentric Bird Woman.

Alas, Ellen must cope with murder anyway. One of her high school classmates is stabbed to death, and she and her best friend Gina can’t resist the puzzle. Handsome Tony Aragón is on the case, and Ellen is only too happy to assist, but when a second classmate of Ellen’s turns up dead, Tony’s protective instinct kicks in. Much as Ellen agrees, she can’t stay in a cocoon—she’s got a business to run.

Is the fact that the victim has recently been to the tearoom merely a coincidence? Could Tony’s gratifying concern for Ellen’s safety inspire him to become her personal bodyguard? And what on earth should she get him for Christmas?

Intermezzo: Spirit Matters

(A Wisteria Tearoom Interlude)
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After a disastrous Halloween party at the Wisteria Tearoom, Ellen Rosings seeks to draw some understanding out of the chaos.

While trying to support her grieving Goth office manager, Ellen ponders the mysterious flashes of light she saw in another part of Santa Fe, wondering if they are related to Captain Dusenberry, the tearoom’s resident ghost. She asks for help from the local spirit-tour guide, Willow Lane, who takes curiosity about the captain’s unsolved murder to a new level, where Ellen finds herself exploring the very meaning of spirit.

Will a séance in the tearoom finally provide the answers to her questions?

This is a novella, a short companion story to the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries series. It is recommended that you read A Masquerade of Muertos (book 5) before reading this story.

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The immortal ælven were forever divided when one clan began a forbidden practice: the drinking of blood.

Clan Darkshore was cast out of the ælven, named “alben,” and driven west of the mountains into exile, their protests—that they must drink blood or perish—ignored. Centuries later, Darkshore’s leader, Shalár, burns with anger at the memory of the war against her clan, and weaves a plan to reclaim her former home and make the ælven accept the truth about her people.

East of the mountains, a young ælven, Eliani, takes up the sword after her lover betrays her. She has no use for the elegant, much-admired Turisan, heir to the governor of a neighboring realm, but when they find evidence that the alben may again be hunting in ælven realms, they become uneasy allies.

With the threat of the alben’s return driving the ælven to prepare for war, Eliani and Turisan discover that they share mindspeech. This rare gift could be the salvation of their people—if Turisan can persuade Eliani to permit the intimacy of his mental touch.

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Originally published as The Betrayal by Del Rey Books

(Wysteria Tearoom Mysteries, Book 5)
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254 pages

Goths reenacting Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” on Halloween night…what could possibly go wrong?

Despite her desire to make the Wisteria Tearoom a haven of tranquility, Ellen Rosings can’t rid her parlors of the shadow of death. Fascinated with the tearoom’s resident ghost, her customers flock to spirit-tours-with-tea, and to crown all, the office manager and her Goth friends plan a Halloween masquerade recreating a classic horror story.

Between his heavy workload and his fits of jealousy when Ellen looks at anything male, Detective Tony Aragón can’t offer her much comfort.

Are the flashes of light she’s been seeing some kind of message from the spirit world? Or is it just coincidence when a body turns up where she last saw a gleam?

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