The Ashes at Juniper Mill

A burned-out mill. A missing girl. A cat who keeps finding trouble in all the right places.

Freelance insurance investigator Greer Sutton arrives in quiet Bellweather to assess a suspicious fire claim at the abandoned Juniper Mill. She expects inflated invoices, charred inventory, and one very irritated policyholder. What she does not expect is for her cat, Max, to uncover a clue tied to Clara Deane, a young mill worker who vanished nearly fifty years ago.

Greer is not paid to investigate murder. She is certainly not paid to untangle old scandals, family secrets, and a town’s long-buried guilt. But when the evidence suggests the fire was set to destroy traces of a much older crime, Greer cannot walk away.

With Max offering judgment, interruption, and the occasional breakthrough, Greer follows a trail of false records, yellow ribbons, hidden rooms, and whispered memories. Someone in Bellweather has been protecting the truth for decades, and someone else is willing to burn the town’s past to keep it buried.

Warm, witty, and gently suspenseful, The Ashes at Juniper Mill is a cat cozy mystery perfect for readers who love amateur sleuths, small-town secrets, cold cases, and clever clues without graphic violence.