Murder in a Bottle

Synopsis

Ceian is a Jinn, a powerful user of magic who lives in a bottle. Unfortunately, she sometimes ran with the wrong people. Even more unfortunately, she got caught. After a hundred years locked up in her bottle as punishment for a crime she might, or might not, have been involved in, she gets offered parole. On a backwater planet called Earth. The people of Earth were categorically unaware that they had been annexed by a massively powerful and magical empire. They wouldn’t be amused to know it was quickly determined the planet wasn’t really suited for anything but an inter-dimensional prison. Joined by a former Jinn centurion, an ornery cat, and three nosy old ladies, Ceian has to protect her parolee status and find out who’s murdering people in her new hometown. Starting with the Jinn who set her up to be locked up in the first place. Join the magic, mayhem, and murder in this stand alone paranormal cozy mystery novella today! This novella originally appeared in the Magical Mayhem and Murderous Mysteries Anthology.