Meet Sandy Sumner, the shapeshifting sheriff of Kasselville. A Brush with Death is the fifth book in this slice-of-life, cozy fantasy series. When image is everything, how do you protect the truth? Sheriff Sandy Sumner is fighting for reelection. But the real battle begins when an image consultant and his geriatric seamstress-with a pin fetish-reluctantly team up with mean and entitled makeup artist Katie Kunst to give Sandy a brutally honest makeover. Confident that her track record will speak for itself-no lipstick required-Sandy resists the spectacle. That is, until an unexpected challenger enters the race. Already on edge, Sandy receives one of her visions-both a gift and a curse-that shows Katie's brutal attack by a yellow-booted assailant. When Katie ends up comatose-and then dead-just days into the campaign, Sandy turns to her Aunt Helga, an eccentric wood witch, to help her revisit the vision and uncover the killer. But the deeper Sandy digs, the more she unearths secrets buried in her past-memories she had long forgotten, and a betrayal by the very institution she swore to serve. Can Sandy catch a killer, confront the truth, and keep her badge... or will the past-and her challenger-take everything?