A Vision in Velvet

Lily Ivory runs a vintage clothing business and is always after a bargain. When she buys an antique trunk packed with old garments, she expects to find some good pieces to sell. Instead she finds a velvet cloak that gives off strange vibrations the moment the lid is open.

When Lily puts the cloak on, it shows her terrible visions of the past. Soon afterward, the antiques dealer who sold her the trunk is killed, and Lily suspects something supernatural lies behind his death.

Then her familiar, a potbellied pig named Oscar, vanishes. Lily is a sorceress, and she is ready to do whatever it takes to bring him home, even if that means facing the spirit of a powerful witch whose reach extends out of the past. Her grandmother helps her.

This is a paranormal mystery with a cozy feel, mixing a murder investigation with magic and a missing animal companion. The questions it poses are who killed the dealer, what the cloak is hiding, and whether one well-meaning sorceress can solve the crime and rescue Oscar before the witch's influence wins out.