Tracking down Aunt Lavender's kidnapper is proving to be more difficult than swimming through a pool filled with peanut butter. Every lead we uncover ends with more questions than answers.

We're running out of ideas-and time, too. The mysterious Golden Lotus seems to hold the key to the investigation, but no one can tell us what it does or why Aunt Lavender might have been looking for it.

And if that wasn't enough to keep both my cranky feline familiar and me completely occupied, we find ourselves thrust into the center of another criminal investigation-this time as the lead suspects.

We have to work together to clear our names and get the Winterspell PD off our tails so we can continue our hunt for Aunt Lavender and the mysterious Golden Lotus.

Time is burning faster than the wick on one of my enchanted candles, and I fear it's about to sputter out.

**Cursed Claws is book three in the Nine Lives Magic series by Danielle Garrett. These magical cozy mysteries are full of hijinks and purr-fect for anyone who wanted to adopt Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.**