Winter buries Moonlight Falls in snow-and the town starts to forget itself. A name here. A memory there. An old regular who can't recall the coffee he's ordered every morning for forty years.
Hazel traces it to a door on Carver Lane, sealed three thousand years ago against something so terrible no one dared even carve its name. A lock like that doesn't hold itself. It has to be fed, paid, tended-and somewhere in her cozy little town, the faithful soul who's been keeping it shut has started paying the toll a far crueler way.
To save everyone, Hazel has to find the keeper before the seal breaks. And brace herself for the hardest truth of her trade: the person at the end of this isn't a villain. It's someone who loved this town so much it hollowed them out.
She won't win by hating them. She'll win by refusing the bargain that broke them.
Cappuccinos and Curses is the third Coffee Coven Mystery-the warmest, most heartfelt one yet, with cozy small-town magic, a found family worth fighting for, and a cat who still won't say anything nice. Clean, no gore, no cliffhangers.