Cinna and Hokuren

Introducing Cinna and Hokuren, two delightful women detectives forming a loving found family, in a heartwarming and fresh cozy fantasy mystery standalone that kicks off a series!

Hokuren is a Seeker, a private investigator with a fledgling business. She's finally getting her first big break: a case that will make her name and skills known to all in Velles, the cosmopolitan city of fading magic.

The princess of Velles has absconded with the Captain of the Guard, and Hokuren's been hired to track them down. But they didn’t run off together for some fairytale tryst. They have much more sinister plans, involving magic thought to no longer be possible, soul destruction, and the goddess of the elves, missing for thousands of years.

If Hokuren, together with her raw and feisty elven assistant Cinna, wants to find the princess and solve the case—and she always solves the case—she’s going to need to uncover every secret hidden within Velles’s dark underbelly. And Hokuren had better do it fast, because even as the bond between her and Cinna grows, the next target of the princess and the captain’s scheme could be her unassuming assistant.

A lighthearted and fast-paced fantasy adventure full of action, mystery and sly humor, Cinnamon Soul is also a heartwarming exploration of an unbreakable bond of friendship forged between two women as they struggle against the forces of the elite and powerful.