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Familiar Kitten Mysteries #35
Conjured Chaos: Mysteries of Meri
When house cleaner Wren Fairchild discovers her most difficult client stabbed to death in his own garage, she becomes the obvious suspect. After all, Lysander Baneworth owed her money, treated her terribly, and made everyone around him miserable. The problem? Wren's stress is causing her usually comforting emotion magic to spiral into dangerous chaos, making her appear even more guilty to anyone watching.
Kinsley Wilson can't stand by while her friend takes the blame for a murder she didn't commit. But investigating this case means navigating more than just hostile suspects and uncooperative neighbors. Her magical donut shop is humming with unstable energy, the entire supernatural community is experiencing inexplicable disruptions, and to make matters worse, her long-lost cousin has been hiding in plain sight...
Just when Kinsley thinks her life can't get more complicated, a parade of West Coast Skeenbauer relatives descends on Coventry. The California cousins arrive with their crystals and manifestation magic, determined to cleanse everyone's negative energy. The Pacific Northwest cousins show up shrouded in black, practicing shadow work and brooding about werewolf mythology. Both branches are fleeing the consequences of magic gone wrong, and both expect Kinsley to solve their problems.
Between proving Wren's innocence, managing magical chaos, protecting Chalfont from a magical bounty hunter, and preventing her relatives from taking over her house, Kinsley has her hands full. But when the real killer starts targeting anyone who gets too close to the truth, she'll need all her magical skills, and her sarcastic familiar Meri's cutting observations, to solve a murder that's anything but simple.
Kinsley Wilson can't stand by while her friend takes the blame for a murder she didn't commit. But investigating this case means navigating more than just hostile suspects and uncooperative neighbors. Her magical donut shop is humming with unstable energy, the entire supernatural community is experiencing inexplicable disruptions, and to make matters worse, her long-lost cousin has been hiding in plain sight...
Just when Kinsley thinks her life can't get more complicated, a parade of West Coast Skeenbauer relatives descends on Coventry. The California cousins arrive with their crystals and manifestation magic, determined to cleanse everyone's negative energy. The Pacific Northwest cousins show up shrouded in black, practicing shadow work and brooding about werewolf mythology. Both branches are fleeing the consequences of magic gone wrong, and both expect Kinsley to solve their problems.
Between proving Wren's innocence, managing magical chaos, protecting Chalfont from a magical bounty hunter, and preventing her relatives from taking over her house, Kinsley has her hands full. But when the real killer starts targeting anyone who gets too close to the truth, she'll need all her magical skills, and her sarcastic familiar Meri's cutting observations, to solve a murder that's anything but simple.
249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2025
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Sara Bourgeois
362 books381 followersSara Bourgeois is a Midwesterner through and through. She spends her time writing, reading, herding cats, and standing in her driveway during tornado warnings. (You can't see them from the basement.)
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November 11, 2025
Wren and her daughter are fairly new in town, and Wren's talent/power is preparing food with positive intentions in the mix; a comforting latte, or a cheerful cupcake.
Disaster strikes--everyone--when a horrible man that Wren worked for is murdered, and she is a suspect. With her gift comes a very sensitive nature that is "difficult" to balance. Wren's fear and despair are pulsing outward, affecting everyone, anything she touches, and more. All of Coventry avoids her for the emotional plague she is, making it worse.
Meanwhile, Kinsley is trying to help, to solve the murder, to find out why certain people are acting strangely, and to ignore her daughter's feline familiar Bonkers, who shouts far more than any detective's assistant (with ever changing titles) should.
I was happy to learn a little more about Kinsley's side of the family (a branch or two), and the humor was very welcome!
I enjoyed this book, but as happens sometimes, Kinsley learns something earlier in the book--but apparently never "knew it"--because when she learns about it (again) later, suddenly everything "clicks into place." (I realize editing is difficult, but this sort of thing goes CLUNK! It really ruins the flow of the story.) There are occasional repeated phrases--within a paragraph or two--as well in a few of the books.
4 of 5 Stars
Note: I had planned to joke about "sure things" in this series. Things that happened without fail in every book. Then a miracle happened! Someone smiled, and the smile reached her eyes! [I'm just giving you a hard time, Sara! I'm pretty sure it happened before...at some point... I suppose it's an expected hazard when readers have followed more than 30 books in your series. Congrats on your success!]
PS. FYI: This edition is plagued by a strange mistake or prank. Primarily in chapters 2, 5, and 8, which are missing the words "with" or "in." I didn't highlight all of them because I was getting carpal tunnel pain. The absence happens too many times to be a coincidence; my guess is a short 'search and delete' campaign.
Disaster strikes--everyone--when a horrible man that Wren worked for is murdered, and she is a suspect. With her gift comes a very sensitive nature that is "difficult" to balance. Wren's fear and despair are pulsing outward, affecting everyone, anything she touches, and more. All of Coventry avoids her for the emotional plague she is, making it worse.
Meanwhile, Kinsley is trying to help, to solve the murder, to find out why certain people are acting strangely, and to ignore her daughter's feline familiar Bonkers, who shouts far more than any detective's assistant (with ever changing titles) should.
I was happy to learn a little more about Kinsley's side of the family (a branch or two), and the humor was very welcome!
I enjoyed this book, but as happens sometimes, Kinsley learns something earlier in the book--but apparently never "knew it"--because when she learns about it (again) later, suddenly everything "clicks into place." (I realize editing is difficult, but this sort of thing goes CLUNK! It really ruins the flow of the story.) There are occasional repeated phrases--within a paragraph or two--as well in a few of the books.
4 of 5 Stars
Note: I had planned to joke about "sure things" in this series. Things that happened without fail in every book. Then a miracle happened! Someone smiled, and the smile reached her eyes! [I'm just giving you a hard time, Sara! I'm pretty sure it happened before...at some point... I suppose it's an expected hazard when readers have followed more than 30 books in your series. Congrats on your success!]
PS. FYI: This edition is plagued by a strange mistake or prank. Primarily in chapters 2, 5, and 8, which are missing the words "with" or "in." I didn't highlight all of them because I was getting carpal tunnel pain. The absence happens too many times to be a coincidence; my guess is a short 'search and delete' campaign.
August 28, 2025
Love Meri
Still enjoying this series except for the seriously bad editing. I saw the review about the missing “with”s. They were right Very distracting. Please do justice to this book and correct and reload. Things should be great in book 35 of a series. I seriously hate leaving negative reviews. I would have given my 5 stars if the typos were not so bad. The story line was good and Meri was great. Meri is the only reason I keep following the series
Still enjoying this series except for the seriously bad editing. I saw the review about the missing “with”s. They were right Very distracting. Please do justice to this book and correct and reload. Things should be great in book 35 of a series. I seriously hate leaving negative reviews. I would have given my 5 stars if the typos were not so bad. The story line was good and Meri was great. Meri is the only reason I keep following the series
August 13, 2025
Proofreading needed.
August 14, 2025
review
Another hit!! Awesome story and I can’t wait to hear about Chafys next chapter. Lots of great dialogue and stories that go in other directions but all end up together.
Another hit!! Awesome story and I can’t wait to hear about Chafys next chapter. Lots of great dialogue and stories that go in other directions but all end up together.
August 16, 2025
Fantastic
Another great story with Kinsley and Meri solving what seemed to be an unsolvable mystery. So fun to try to figure out who dun it
Another great story with Kinsley and Meri solving what seemed to be an unsolvable mystery. So fun to try to figure out who dun it
January 30, 2026
Annoying typos
The story was ok, but I feel like the author is just going through the motions at this point. The editing was not very good at all.
The story was ok, but I feel like the author is just going through the motions at this point. The editing was not very good at all.
April 23, 2026
Missing words
Too many missing words. Spent too much time trying to figure out what the word was supposed to be. I enjoyed the story line though.
Too many missing words. Spent too much time trying to figure out what the word was supposed to be. I enjoyed the story line though.
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