The Willowmere Mysteries · Book 2
She can feel the past. Now it won’t let her go.
A power that’s growing past her control. A girlfriend with a secret of her own. A teenager’s death the town closed in six hours.
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The Willowmere Mysteries · Book 3
Finished — up for pre-order, out September 10, 2026
The Willowmere Mysteries · Book 4
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The Willowmere Mysteries — Book 1
Where the Veil is Thin
A psychic librarian and skeptical detective investigate a murder linked to a 130-year-old cover-up in this sapphic mystery with paranormal elements.
For fans of Morgan Spellman and Ali K. Mulford
Closed-door romance · Off-page violence · Mild language
The Willowmere Mysteries — Book 2
When the Veil Breaks
A psychic’s powers are evolving and her detective girlfriend is hearing ghosts. Book 2 of a sapphic paranormal mystery series set in small-town Oregon.
The Willowmere Mysteries — Book 3
Whispers Beneath Willowmere
A psychic librarian, a woman pulled from the mud, and a century of covered-up drownings. Book 3 of a sapphic paranormal mystery series.
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Hi, I’m MC Smith
I write stories that blur the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary—sapphic paranormal mysteries set in small-town Oregon, and speculative fiction about the lives we could have lived.
Every book asks the same question: who are we, and who might we have been?
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