Into the Darkbower

Chief Inquirer Esmerelda Mendos is retiring from the Special Office of Uncanny Inquiry in three days. She's up late tidying up the file on the cold case she means to leave behind as a teaching tool. Thirty years ago, she landed the opportunity of a lifetime: a spot on an all-star squad investigating the rarest kind of case, a criminal who appears to have a faerie for a bodyguard. Their suspect is gracious, composed, unabashed, and keen to tell them everything, but that's assuming they can trust a word he says. The investigation leads them into the Darkbower, where death comes without warning or sense. Where they find themselves doubting each other and everything they think they understand. Into the Darkbower is a stand-alone paranormal fantasy from new author M. C. Burnell.