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💼🔥 **3 (ongoing series planned) BOOK Paranormal Cozy Mystery SERIES CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE!** 🔥💼

### **The Haunted Light Mysteries**
**Codex + Complete Story Outline**

If you love **paranormal cozy mystery** with moody seaside atmosphere, quirky charm, and puzzle-forward whodunits, this **market-ready series package** is built to plug straight into your author brand.

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### What you get:
✅ **Complete Series Codex** — richly detailed character bios, relationships, recurring suspects, seaside town lore, key locations (including the antique lamp shop), ongoing subplot threads, and **clear haunted-object “rules”** to keep the magic consistent across the series.

✅ **A structured, beat-driven series outline** — plotted for **cozy mystery pacing** (hook → clue chain → red herrings → escalating stakes → reveal → emotional payoff), designed to support a satisfying standalone case in each book while deepening the long-game mysteries.

✅ **Market-ready tropes included:**
– Midlife Amateur Detective
– Talking Parrot Familiar
– Haunted Objects
– Small Town Secrets
– First in a Series
– Amateur Sleuth
– Hidden Conspiracy
– Eccentric Townsfolk
– Developing Trust
– Cold Case Mystery
– Secrets in the Family
– Peril Close to Home

✅ **Flexible voice + polish** — ready for you to tailor tone, heat level, humor, and prose style to fit your pen name while keeping the structure strong.

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### Premise:
After inheriting her great-aunt’s antique lamp shop, **45-year-old Rowena “Ro” Temple** discovers the vintage lamps she repairs are **haunted**—each one revealing spectral echoes of its former owner’s **final moments**. With her parrot familiar, **Philo**, Ro uses these eerie flashes of truth to untangle murders in the seaside town of **Veridian Bay**, all while her strange gift (and the town’s buried secrets) deepen across an ongoing series of haunted-object mysteries.

**Books:**

1. **A Flicker in the Gloom** – Rowena Temple’s plan for a quiet mid-life restart is shattered when she restores a beautiful Art Nouveau table lamp that begins projecting ghostly visions of a local historian’s murder. The town’s handsome but skeptical new detective, Mateo Diaz, believes the death was an accident, forcing Ro and her Shakespeare-quoting parrot to follow a trail of spectral clues. To solve the case, Ro must embrace her strange new ability and expose a secret hidden within Veridian Bay’s most esteemed family, proving that some antiques carry a deadly price.
* **Tropes:** Midlife Amateur Detective, Talking Parrot Familiar, Haunted Objects, Small Town Secrets, First in a Series

2. **A Shadow on the Sill** – Business is finally picking up at “The Filament & Flame,” until a renowned antiques collector is found dead after purchasing a set of coveted Victorian wall sconces from Ro’s shop. The twin ghosts haunting the fixtures are terrified and contradictory, offering fragmented clues that point to a high-stakes art forgery ring operating under the town’s nose. As Ro gets closer to the truth, the threats become unnervingly real, forcing her to trust Detective Diaz with her unbelievable secret before she becomes the next victim.
* **Tropes:** Amateur Sleuth, Haunted Objects, Hidden Conspiracy, Eccentric Townsfolk, Developing Trust

3. **A Glint of Malice** – When Ro restores a pair of maritime storm lanterns that belonged to her own great-aunt, she uncovers a chilling family secret tied to a decades-old cold case. The lanterns project memories of a fisherman lost at sea—a disappearance that was never properly investigated. As a new murder mirrors the old crime, Ro realizes the killer is someone who has been part of the Veridian Bay community for years, and they will do anything to keep the past buried deep.
* **Tropes:** Haunted Objects, Cold Case Mystery, Secrets in the Family, Amateur Detective, Peril Close to Home

**Series Hook:** In Veridian Bay, some antiques are to die for. Literally.

This series is designed to be ongoing, with each new haunted object providing the catalyst for a fresh mystery while allowing for the slow-burn development of Ro’s abilities and her relationships with the recurring cast.

✨ **Genre:** Paranormal cozy mystery
✨ **Tone:** Moody-cozy, seaside atmospheric, lightly spooky, warm found-family vibes, puzzle-forward whodunits
✨ **Series Length:** **3 (ongoing series planned)**
✨ **Book Titles:** *A Flicker in the Gloom*; *A Shadow on the Sill*; *A Glint of Malice*

📦 Perfect for authors who want a **ready-made series concept** where **each book features a new haunted lamp, a fresh murder tied to its past, and a satisfying cozy reveal**—with escalating personal stakes, recurring suspects, and a long-game mystery simmering underneath it all.

⚡ **First come, first served — once it’s sold, it’s gone.**
🚫 **SALES ARE FINAL!!**