Halloween: full of tricks, treats, and the occasional magical homicide.
All Michelle Oaks wanted was some rest and relaxation with her fiancé, Elron, away from the chaos and stress of planning her wedding.
No such luck. Not when the bride is the future premier of the witch clans, the groom is an elf, and the in-laws haven’t officially acknowledged the 21st century.
It’s nearly Samhain, the time of year when the veil between the living an
No rest for the wicked means no rest for good witches.
Michelle thought ridding the world of demons would finally give her some time to rebuild her magical reserves, but fate has other plans. Someone has unleashed magical mayhem on her town, inflicting its residents—magical and mundane, living and inanimate—with all kinds of dangerous spells, and she’s the only witch capable of containing the damage. She can’t even have a date night with Elron without things going to the dogs. Dogs whose barking can send people flying across rooms, for starters.
To add to her misery, the premier of all the witches has chosen Michelle to be her successor, but tragedy strikes before their plans can even start. Michelle’s never wanted to be a politician, and navigating the treachery of the clans proves to be a deadly game—one that Michelle doesn’t know how to play.
As Michelle struggles to solve one witch-made emergency after another, the evidence mounts that a freak accident may actually be an act of mass murder. She needs to find enough reserves of magic within her to uncover a sinister plot before time runs out for everything—and everyone—she cares about.
d the dead is thinnest. Magical fixers in northern Georgia are in short supply, and the local authorities are unable to combat the rising number of otherworldly incidents and ask her to assist. By the time Michelle has a chance to mourn her lost vacation, she’s already working with the police in pursuit of a supernatural killer with no discernible pattern of attack.
Its damage, however, is widespread. The dead are resting in pieces, not in peace. Bystanders wander around in a drunken haze, unable to speak of the crimes they witnessed. Michelle faces a strange, powerful magic she’s never encountered before. It’s up to her to understand its origins and to end the mayhem before the perpetrator strikes again.
Because if this case messes with her Halloween party, there will be hell to pay.
