Sensible Spells

A bowl keeps filling with salt water. The pipes hum like the ocean. And the Dusty Rose Hotel is cracking at the seams.

Missy Due thought inheriting a magical hotel was complicated enough. She's running the Dusty Rose Hotel & Curio Shoppe, managing a ghost with strong opinions, keeping an eye on one suspiciously clever cat, and learning the witchcraft her mother sealed away twenty years ago.

Then she finds her mother's hidden journal. More than a century ago, a witch named Ada made a bargain with something beneath the desert. That bargain created a door, and every generation of witches in Due, California has paid for it.

Now the shadow is stirring again. And it knows Missy's name.

When her estranged mother comes back to town, Missy finally learns why she was taken away as a teenager and why her magic was locked up. The answers come with a terrible price. Her great-aunt Clementine is trapped on the other side of the door, fading.

The shadow offers a deal. Clementine back, for just a few pages from the book that keeps it contained.

What could possibly go wrong?

With her small-town friends, a local witch, a ghostly resident, and a cat who knows more than he lets on, Missy has to save Clementine without unleashing something no one can control.

A cozy urban fantasy of witches, family secrets, and a hotel with a problem.