Queen of witches, born of nightmares.
Maker of dreams come true.
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 friends and neighbors are not human. And when Angie’s best friend vanishes, denial stops being an option.
It’s high time for Angie to dig deep and discover her inner warrior witch. Because if she fails, she will lose more than her sanity. She will lose her friend, her world, and herself.
Midlife magic proves far messier (and far more 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.
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.
A doppelgänger. Probably.
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. She does not want the job.
As her town grows stranger and the boundary between worlds continues to blur, Angie learns that being a Warrior (with a capital W) was only half the truth. With unreliable allies and dangerous magic awakening inside her, she must embrace what she is becoming before the Pen of Lore falls into the wrong hands.
Because some stories aren’t written to have happy endings.
They’re written to be erased.
