Today, we’re welcoming Carissa Shae to The Self-Rescue Princess.
Please tell us a little bit about what is currently going on in your life?
A regular customer, a faerie woman named Miss Morgan, passed away in my shop, the Seelie Tree Apothecary. Sal and I tried to save her, as a pharmacist and a half-elf I should have been able to do something, but I didn’t have the medicine or magic to figure out what was wrong and save her in time. Poor Sal was just there to get some herbs for Hela’s engagement dinner. There was nothing he could have done. I know Miss Morgan wasn’t the most popular faerie, but she helped me once and I think she had a good heart for all her flaws. It looks like it wasn’t natural causes, which means there’s a killer somewhere in Moss Hill. I’m trying to help catch him or her.
What made you decide to take on such a risky endeavor?
I trusted the sidhe guard – the faeries in charge of investigating fae crimes – to find out what happened to Miss Morgan, but I think they’ll just settle on an easy suspect: Me. It was my shop after all. Of course I’m not guilty, but I think that sort of makes it my responsibility to help Miss Morgan since I couldn’t save her. If the sidhe won’t find the real killer, I think the least I owe Miss Morgan is to catch the culprit myself.
Did you ever imagine yourself being involved in fighting crime?
Never! I’d rather not be involved either, but I’m worried the people of this island might be in danger, the mayor’s helpless because it’s faerie jurisdiction and the sidhe don’t like to listen to humans.
Who would you say is the least pleased about your additional career choice of amateur sleuthing?
Other than myself? That would have to be Cam. He’s a good friend whose boss pushed him into helping me. He can’t exactly say no, since his boss is the mayor. Truthfully, I doubt he’d have said no anyway. He makes a fuss, but he’s always there for me.
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
I do whatever I can to protect my friends and family, but I tend to take the world on my shoulders when I should trust others to help.
Describe what being a self-rescue princess (a strong, confident woman) means to you.
It doesn’t take a brush with death to rescue yourself in life. Working a job, owning a shop, raising kids, helping friends, all of it takes strength. Being a self-rescue princess means finding your own inner power to face whatever challenge life presents with a strong will and the belief that you will overcome every obstacle.
If your story or life had a theme song, what would it be?
Fight Song by Rachel Platten would definitely be my choice.
There’s a lot I didn’t say or haven’t done perfectly. I would redo it now, but that’s not how life works. I’m not going to dwell on the past, but I have a lot of fight left for the future.
Do you plan on dabbling in amateur sleuthing in the future, or have you hung up your detective hat?
I wasn’t planning on being a sleuth in the first place. I received a note from a woman named Raven Corvus saying Moss Hill was in danger. I didn’t realize at the time that she might have been warning about Miss Morgan’s death. Or could she have meant that there is more crime to come? I can’t know for certain, but I must protect my friends and family, and my hometown, from danger. Or else, what kind of self-rescue princess would I be?
Check out the rest of the series:
Book 4: Charms and Changelings
The Self-Rescue Princess 
Thank you for being part of the book tour for “Herbs and Homicide” by ASTORIA WRIGHT. Enjoyed heard from Carissa Shae. I would love the opportunity to read the book.
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