Enjoy this historical paranormal cozy mystery featuring a reluctant hotel owner and one very opinionated ghost.

Arabella Pryce can speak to the dead. Unfortunately, the living keep getting murdered.

Colorado, 1885. After her late husband’s will leaves her a grand frontier hotel in the small town of La Plata Springs, former stage star Arabella Pryce has exactly one goal: survive the year required to claim her inheritance and return to New York.

Running a hotel in the Wild West wasn’t part of the plan.

Neither was murder.

When a prominent guest is found dead inside the Arabella Hotel, suspicion quickly falls on its glamorous new owner. The sheriff is asking questions, the town is whispering, and Arabella’s reputation is hanging by a thread.

Luckily, Arabella has help.

Percival Blank—the hotel’s sarcastic resident ghost—has been watching the guests for years, and he’s more than happy to point out the details the living keep missing.

Now Arabella must untangle jealous rivals, suspicious guests, and secrets hiding behind polite society smiles before the killer strikes again.

Because if she can’t clear her name, her fresh start in the West may end before it truly begins.

The Pryce of Conceit is the first book in the Pryce of Murder historical cozy mystery series, perfect for readers who enjoy clever amateur sleuths, ghostly companions, and charming mysteries in the tradition of Deanna Raybourn, Rhys Bowen, and Bobbi Holmes.