âThanks for your concern, but I donât need your protection. I have a mystical cat, an unprincipled gnome with a violent streak, and I have my magic.â
Betty Lennox is an elemental witch on a mission to leave her desert hometown of Smokethorn, California, for good. But first, she needs to sell the property she inherited from her mother to someone who, among other things, doesnât mind living in a paranormal seniors' trailer park in a town where itâs so hot in summer that the local demons head back to Hades to cool off.
Sheâs also running low on cash to keep up the protection spell on the park. When sheâs offered a job to procure a cursed grimoire, one so dangerous the local coven wonât touch it, she takes it. Even though the job comes from a vicious wolf alpha who wonât rest until sheâs dead.
To get the grimoire and keep her soul, sheâll have to lean on her partnerâa magic cat named FennelâCecil, a homicidal garden gnome, a graveyard demon, her retired necromancer best friend, and her second-least favorite bartender in town, who also just happens to be the wolf alphaâs son.
If they can manage to work together without killing each other, Betty just might survive.
For fans of urban fantasy with a side of slow-burn romance.