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Queen of witches, born of nightmares.
Maker of dreams come true.

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Midlife crisis or magical apocalypse?
Can't it be both?

 

Angie Daly thought her biggest problems were keeping her struggling bookstore afloat and surviving her eccentric family. At forty-something, that meant supporting her twenty-something twins, ignoring her divorced parents hooking up above her garage, tolerating her husband’s sea-shanty band phase, and propping up her best friend through a bitter divorce.

 

That all feels manageable until Angie wakes in the middle of the night to find two elves, an aggravated fairy, and a gluttonous miniature giant tearing through her refrigerator. The fae in her kitchen claim she is a legendary Warrior, the only one capable of stopping a warlock who feeds on magic and plans to drain the fae world dry.

 

Fairy tales are real. Some of her neighbors are not human. And when Angie’s best friend vanishes, denial is no longer an option.​ It’s high time for Angie to dig deep and discover her inner warrior witch. Because if she fails, she’ll lose her best friend, her sense of self, and the fragile balance holding her life together.

 

Midlife magic proves messy and entertaining as Angie’s chaotic family life collides with a hidden fae world in this fast-paced, funny urban fantasy. — Kim Watt, author of Baking Bad and other fantasy series

You’d think saving the fae world from a magic-sucking warlock would earn you a returned text message.

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Instead, forty-something bookstore owner Angie Daly has been ghosted by her elven allies and her favorite miniature giant. She’s back to the daily grind, juggling a struggling business, a collapsing local economy, and a mysterious bank error that suggests someone else may be living her life.

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A doppelgänger. Probably.

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Meanwhile, the Pen of Lore, a powerful magical artifact capable of rewriting history and shaping how humankind perceives magic, has been stolen. The fae authorities want Angie to retrieve it. Honestly, she’d rather just be bookselling.

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As her town grows stranger and the boundary between worlds continues to blur, Angie learns that being a warrior witch is not all it’s cracked up to be. With unreliable allies and dangerous magic awakening inside her, she must embrace what she is becoming and hunt down the Pen of Lore.

 

Because some stories are not written to have happy endings.

 

They are written to be erased.

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Months after the fae were exposed to humanity, Angie Daly is trying to survive a world that won’t stop changing and a life that won’t slow down. When a devastating loss pushes her past the edge of everything she thought she understood, she’s forced into the Witchery Trials — an ancient, brutal system of judgment ruled by witches who do not believe in mercy.

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Old enemies resurface. New ones bare their teeth. And the choices Angie makes now won’t just shape her future, they’ll decide what happens to everyone she loves.

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Her fate is no longer hers alone. It’s tied to her daughter Mae’s, and the path forward may pull them both under.

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Saving the world is one thing. Making it out of her own story alive? That’s the real dream.

The storm-forged conclusion to the
A Forty Something Fury series.

Bryon Cahill writes cozy fantasy and urban fantasy novels about magic, found family, and theatrical absurdity. He also writes young adult and middle grade fiction. 
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© 2026 Bryon Cahill
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