Amanda Warren is looking for a second chance in the cozy coastal town of Ocean Wood, but what she finds is a psychic cat and a purrfectly puzzling mystery! Out of luck and out of money, Amanda’s pink dog grooming van is running on fumes when she rolls into the foggy town of Ocean Wood. Seeking a new beginning and a reunion with her twin sister, she finds her sister missing and a dead body in her house. Amanda is determined to clear her sister’s name, but all the quirky, charming neighbors of this Monterey Bay town seem to have a motive. Which one of them is a killer? With time running out, Amanda teams up with her sister’s psychic, amnesiac cat to untangle this fur-midable mystery and sniff out the killer before Amanda’s second chance becomes her last Seren Goode was born in the Midwest with itchy feet and a dream of far-off places. She loves traveling the world, walking on the beach, and curling up with a good cozy mystery or sci-fi book and a hot cup of tea. A Jane-of-all-trades, Seren has studied communications, English, design, marketing, metalsmith, pottery, juggling, and more, and eventually ended up abroad earning a graduate degree in archeology. She started writing fiction in middle school and thoroughly blames her family for encouraging this habit. A big fan of making her characters do their own work, Seren loves to sit back and watch them unravel a mystery or dig for the truth. When she isn't on the road, she is at home on the Central Coast of California, plotting her next book and trip with her songwriter husband and puppies, Clairey and Izzy. She writes Cozy Mysteries as Seren Star Goode and Sci-Fi and Young Adult as Seren Goode.