Author in her Aromatherapy Business

By

C. L. Dow

Latinos, aromatherapy, theater, romance, skullduggery at the highest levels of Academia, and a touch of paranormal magical realism—all these elements combine to create a spellbinding whodunit.

Carolina Corona, fresh from graduate school, is thrilled to land her first teaching job at a small university in her Boulder, Colorado hometown where she can reconnect with her Latino roots and perhaps find true love. Her enthusiasm soon wanes when she discovers all is not as idyllic at the college as it appears. Seething jealousies and rivalries among faculty and students alike roil beneath the tranquil surface.

Carolina’s life takes a decided downturn when she discovers her chief Prince Charming candidate strangled in his office with her scarf. To make matters even worse, her prime suspect is found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning, and her prints are found in his bedroom.

Fearful of being convicted of two murders, losing her job, and shaming her family, the beautiful young professor is driven to clear her name and ferret out the real murderer’s identity. She becomes entangled in an ever more complex web woven from the threads of passion, vice, rage, and pundonor—honor and integrity.

Amateur sleuth Carolina gets help from friends and family, both alive and dead in the form of her proverb-spouting spirit granny, and also from her interest in aromatherapy. In fact, both the proverbs and aromatherapy provide keys that stimulate Carolina’s own ingenuity to solve the mystery.