I’m Maisy Wyatt. I live in Musgrave Landing. It’s a village on Salt Spring Island in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been here for a couple of years, avoiding university. I don’t think I’m cut out for it. My Mum and Dad had other plans until Grandma got involved.

I have to say moving in with her has been an exciting time. We’ve had our share of adventure and hard work. Jane Birch is our boss at her café, along with Arlie, my grandma’s boyfriend. Grandma says they are just friends, but she isn’t fooling me for a second and I’m happy for them.

Anyway, we are a good team and it’s a fun place to work. Who wouldn’t like to work in a bakery café? Jane’s been teaching me about running a small business and Arlie has been schooling me on practical stuff like maintaining the restaurant equipment.

When I get bored, I check out what’s going on in the film industry in Vancouver. Jane is great about allowing me to move my days off so I can be a background actor for different productions. I let my folks know I’m coming over for a visit and when they go off to work, I go to a movie set. The more I work at something practical, like the café or as an extra, the more I think I’m not cut out for academics. I want to do something practical with my life not put it on hold for years.

Recently, Jane’s Eats and Treats has branched out into catering for events up at the big house. Mrs. Roque runs the Highmere estate as a business conference centre, or that’s the plan if this weekend goes well. Usually, I wait tables at the café, but things slow down in December and January. Mrs. Roque needs extra people to put on this retreat, so I agreed to help get the place ready and serve the guests this weekend. Not my usual thing, something new and that’s good. Mrs. Roque implied she wants me to come work for her fulltime, but she has Tiffany already. Plus, there’s something weird with the second floor. Jane told me she’s seen a ghost up there. I haven’t seen anything but there is a cold spot that moves around.

Lately, things have gotten more complicated with Constable Patrick Tadmore moving into the apartment over the café. He thinks I don’t know he’d like to date me, but a girl always knows. Patrick is handsome and smart, but I don’t know if I’m ready to get involved with a guy right now. Nothing could be as weird as it was last year when thieves and a killer were caught at my grandmother’s condo building, that’s how I met Patrick. He was awesome.

Still, there’s so much I want to do, and yet, it would be fantastic to have someone to do things with. Like so much else in my life, I’m putting off that decision too. Grandma says eventually I’ll have to make some choices. I know she’s right, but I’m only twenty. I’ve got lots of time, right?

Maybe after this weekend, working the writers conference, I’ll know more where I want life to take me. Maybe the publishing business might be for me, who knows?

There is also the beach front property Jane owns. She hinted she has plans for it and I might be interested in a new challenge. Maybe, but right now I have to get downstairs, the guests are arriving.

Storm Stayed, A Musgrave Landing Mystery Book 4
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release: July 2024
Format: Print, Digital
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Welcome back to Musgrave Landing. Accessible by ferry across the Samsum Narrows, this island village is home to some quirky characters and some even odder visitors. Sometimes the visitors bring misfortune with them and other times the villagers supply their own brand of trouble. Whether the people are locals or from away, apparently a few are capable of murder.

Maisy Wyatt, is on loan from Jane’s Eats & Treats to Mrs. Roque. The housekeeper has a grand vision for the Highmere House Conference Centre. She has spared no expense with the food or service for the minor literary celebrities who will be their first guests. It won’t matter if the December weather turns bad, it takes a lot to faze Mrs. Roque.

The other new employee Tiffany Zach, will work alongside Maisy to care and feed a cantankerous group of authors from Dunn Wolf Publishing. The situation doesn’t improve when the lead author and owner of the publishing house, Ziola Nutt, announces she has a six-figure media contract with a video streaming company. This news causes shock, disappointment, and anger among the rest of the writers when they find out she will not give them credit for their work, nor any of the royalties.

Worse still, the electricity goes out during a nasty storm. Cell phones are going dead, roads are blocked by fallen trees, and ferry traffic is halted. No one can get off the island. Not even the murderer.

About the author
Yvonne Rediger was born in Saskatchewan, lived and worked in northern Manitoba, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. After a lengthy career in information technology, she now writes from her home in rural Saskatchewan. Yvonne has been telling stories since she was in her teens. Her favourites genres are Mystery, and Urban Fantasy. Each with a bit of romance and humour.

She is a member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Saskatchewan Romance Writers, and International Thrill Writers. Yvonne also chairs the Preeceville Community Library writers’ group.

Yvonne is married, and is the videographer and editor for her husband’s YouTube channel Pallet Cabin. They have two grown children.