House and a Working Girl: A Cozy Cat Mystery

Some secrets are buried too deep to dig up.

In the sleepy coastal town of Ferndale, California the fog rolls in thick like an old ghost, hiding a dark history of stolen land and forged Gilded Age fortunes. For Dr. Ann McBride, life is supposed to be about quiet healing—tending to the town's aging population alongside her golden retriever, Stella, and pouring her heart into opening The Nook, a community bakery.

But when a gruesome local murder shatters the town's artificial peace, and a century-old diary is unearthed beneath the bakery floorboards, Ann finds herself at the center of a lethal conspiracy. Someone is systematically eliminating Ferndale’s elite using a silent, untraceable poison—and using Ann's own medical practice as the delivery vector.

As a violent web of greed, blackmail, and clinical execution tightens around her, Ann realizes the killer isn't a shadowy stranger. It is someone she trusts completely someone who has weaponized her own compassion.

With time running out and a ruthless killer closing in, Ann must unearth the town's deadliest secret before the fog claims her next.