BREWING TROUBLE

Juniper Whitfield is beginning to belong in Hemlock Harbor: the herb shop, the cottage, the tea leaves, and Mr. Pemberton, the black cat who speaks in velvet and judgment.

Then the lighthouse starts flickering.

Not broken.
Not random.
Calling.

Iris heard it in 1979. She heard it again in October 2022, just before she stopped writing in her diary. Now the light at Mariner's Point is doing it again.

During Lobster Days, old money comes to town: a charming heiress, her quiet husband, and an identical twin sister with careful hands.

By Sunday morning, one of them is dead on the rocks below the eastern cliff.

With Sheriff Caleb Reyes asking careful questions, Tilda Marsh hearing what no one says aloud, and Pemberton refusing to explain before the proper time, Juni follows Iris's last clues into a coastal cozy mystery of tea leaves, family secrets, old debts, and a lighthouse that remembers what people try to bury.

Pour a cup. Count the flashes. Stay away from the edge.