Karen E. Rigley

To escape her past, Talia Farini leaves her life in Florida to open Talia’s Mountain Magic shop midwinter in Stonyville a small mountain valley town out west. The feeling she dropped into a Christmas movie is shattered when a blizzard hits her shop, sending her to the hospital. Rex Stone, her rescuer, helps put her shop back together and introduce her to the holidays in Stonyville. Their lives entwine in unexpected ways when Talia trips over Rex's ex-fiance’s dead body at her shop’s rear door.
Her own ex-fiancé compounds the trouble when he escapes from prison in Florida to seek revenge on the person who sent him to prison. Talia.
A bear trap set in the alley. A mysterious old diary. A break-in. A dead rat. Threatening messages. Menacing calls. Treasure hunters searching for Old Willy’s map. Secrets unraveling. Magic beyond the merchandise on her shelves. An escaped convict after her. Danger swirls around Talia, her shop and those she cares about.

Her first Halloween in the Rockies, transplanted Floridian Talia Farini, tumbles into adventure and romance. Defying dark magic, Talia discovers her own powers, untangling mysteries of old, attempting to unhaunt a mansion, all while battling rogue treasure hunters and witch haters.