The Wychwood Case

The Wychwood Case

A fairy-tale mystery

In the Wychwood, magic is real — and bureaucratic. Curses need paperwork. Talking animals unionized decades ago. Witches pay taxes.

Detective Rowan Ashe doesn't believe in fairy-tale rules, which makes him the only one who can survive breaking them.

When the miller's daughter vanishes the night before her wedding — not kidnapped, not run away, but erased, her belongings fading and her memory dissolving from everyone who loved her — Rowan has three days to find her before she disappears completely, down to the last person who remembers her name.

A jilted fairy godmother. A reformed wolf with a badge. A groom cursed to speak only in riddles. And a forest that has erased people before, when it didn't like how their stories were going.

Noir instincts meet fairy-tale logic in this atmospheric mystery where every clue bends the rules of reality — and the clock is always, literally, ticking.

A short story excerpt.