Tide Pool Trouble: Mystic Water Cozy Mystery, Book 4

by Lishla Barron

My name is Amara, and I am that witch — water elemental, plus-sized, and permanently covered in saltwater and questionable life choices on Folly Beach, South Carolina. I work for Poseidon's Daughters doing marine conservation and oceanic badassery, my close friend is Thalassa aka Mother Ocean herself, and I share a gloriously chaotic beach house with my best friend -- Rebecca the Chinese water dragon who hoards blankets, Krish the Indian merman who never does his dishes, and my two nutty seagull familiars Sally and Simon. Oh, and there's Finn — Atlantic Spotted Dolphin shifter, my stud muffin boyfriend, who shows up at my shoreline like he owns it. We're not talking about Finn.

Except we have to, because he's currently helping me investigate yet another crime scene, because Medusa and her gorgon crew have decided that turning marine shifters to stone is their whole personality this season and the shifter councils have responded by completely losing it. So here I am — piecing together ocean murders with a dragon, a merman, two feral seagulls, and a dolphin man who keeps pleading with me not to go home because he wants me to stay at his place, while Thalassa whispers warnings in the tide and Sally steals churros off the boardwalk. Mother Ocean says I was made for this. She's probably right. I just wish it came with better hours. 🌊🔮🐬

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Expected publication June 1, 2026