KJ Rose

She inherited a haunted café. She didn't expect to fall for the detective investigating her. Welcome to Wickbrook Falls, where Sage Hawthorne serves lattes with a little extra magic, her talking cat Biscuit has an opinion about everything, and every drink on the menu comes with a side of trouble. Three cozy, small-town mysteries, one slow-burn romance, and a town that's been keeping secrets for three hundred years.
Book 1: The Espresso Hex - When Sage inherits her great-aunt Zinnia's crumbling Victorian café, she also inherits Biscuit, a black cat who talks, judges, and expects to be obeyed, plus a menu full of little magics. Her opening-night special, the Espresso Hex, makes people tell the truth - right up until the town's least-liked developer drinks his in one go and turns up dead the next morning. Now Sage is the café owner who served him his last cup of coffee, and Detective Cal Ashgrove is the one investigating her.
Book 2: The Cappuccino Curse - Three months into dating Cal, Sage's newly ordinary life is upended when her Midwinter Lights Festival drink gets blamed for a string of disasters hitting the town. Someone's dressing up sabotage as bad luck, and Sage's brew-sight visions keep pulling her toward an old carving at the falls that's about to turn out to be a lot less buried than anyone wanted. Book 3: The Macchiato Magic - Founder's Day is coming, and Sage has to brew the Macchiato Magic - the ceremonial drink that renews all four of Wickbrook Falls' three-hundred-year-old founding wards in a single working, magic she's never actually done before.
When sabotage starts hitting town landmarks, Sage has less than three weeks to find out who's after her town's oldest secret before Founder's Day hands them their chance. Grab all three books in one collection: a magical menu, a slow-earned romance, a talking cat who already knows whodunit, and a small town with more secrets than lattes.