The prime suspect in a murder case and a valuable painting have both vanished into thin air... On the eve of her fortieth birthday, single mom Maggie has things on her mind. A lot of things. There’s her booming muffin business… Her pre-teen daughter… And the geeky guy she couldn’t stand in high school who went off and got handsome—like, really handsome—and just asked her out for drinks. Plus this crazy business that her grandmother just brought up about witchcraft. Pfft! As if that could be real. And now, the daughter of the wealthy Ortiz family is dead and they’ve hired her twin sister, Belinda, to find answers. The murder case is a tricky one: the number one suspect and a valuable painting have both vanished into thin air. Everyone involved seems to be hiding something. Maggie vows to help Belinda get to the bottom of the mess. Can the twins crack the case before the next vanishing act?

A body between the fiction stacks at the local library? Maggie doesn’t need to browse the periodical section to know that’s bad news! When a dead body turns up at the local library, Maggie knows it’s none of her beeswax. The cops can handle the investigation, and they certainly don’t want help from amateur sleuths who might muck things up. But Maggie’s twin sister, Belinda, wants answers—and believes she already has a lead. A lollipop spotted in the victim’s car might just unravel the whole case… Maggie knows she has to keep her curious and nosey twin out of trouble. Add a local mobster, a couple thieves, and two love spells gone wrong, and Maggie has her hands full!

To new witch Maggie, forty feels pretty darn fabulous. Until a dead body turns up. Maggie Aster had no idea middle age would feel so fantastic. There are delicious potion cocktails to sip. Coven sisters to laugh with. And even a secret section of the local hardware store to browse for magical supplies. How fun is that? Life suddenly has a lot more zing to it, and Maggie can’t complain. Until… Her twin sister Belinda takes on a case that has “danger” written all over it. A fortune teller in town is connected to a suspicious death. But how? Belinda has a theory about what went down, and she’s intent on proving it. Maggie vows to keep her twin safe from the perils of poking around in a killer’s business, and gets dragged into a murder investigation filled with twists, turns, and trouble.