The Pie Maker's Apprentice

by Erin Lark Maples

Fourteen-year old Seraphina Lincoln lived a perfectly predictable life before she gained a stalker, found a body, and learned to manipulate the future. She uncovers family secrets and is forced to choose — claim her legacy or lose everything.

Sera’s mother upends their predictable life in the desert to head to a small town for the summer. Sera swears she’s been followed to their new cabin in the woods. When a house burns down the same night someone is lurking in the forest, she confronts her fears to learn she can influence the future through a genetic quirk. Glowing handwriting and an ethereal house cat are just the beginning, if she’s anything like her ancestors, Sera can bind time.

When a challenge to the winnings of a bygone poker game threatens the community, Sera must learn how to untangle family ties and wield her gifts in time to save the town — and the people — she’s grown to love.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2022

About the author

Erin is a lover of fountain pens and the trail they leave behind. She is an award-winning author of cozy mysteries, contemporary fantasy, and paranormal women's fiction. Her work is highly praised for its heart and snark as well as her knack for breathing magic into the everyday.
A diehard gadabout and champagne fanatic, Erin is a firm believer in the tender and wild. A native Arizonan, when not behind a keyboard, you’ll find her under the stars, howling at the moon.