Double Dead Magic

The defeat at the cemetery should have been the end of it. The thing under the oldest tree was put down, the town stopped eating itself alive, Tonya went home. But the Mods have spent twenty years waiting for a chance like this, and they’ve found one. They’re claiming Aunt Helen killed Jack Waldock. Not the revenant Tonya watched her defeat. The living bad boy she used to date, two decades ago, when her aunt was Tonya’s age.

It’s a lie. Waldock was already dead the first time. But the only person who can prove it is the one they’re putting on trial.

So Tonya does the one thing she can. She enrolls in the remedial magic program at Loon Lake University, swallows the parole conditions, sits through summer classes with the rival clan, and starts asking questions about a death the magical authorities sealed shut at the time. Somewhere in that buried investigation is the truth that frees the woman who raised her, if Tonya can dig it up before the Old Families bury her with it.

And the boy she was falling for can’t remember her name. None of her friends can. The Mods saw to that.

She’s eighteen years old, half-trained, alone, and the only person left who knows what really happened.

Book two of the complete Loon Lake Magic trilogy — all three books available now. A warm, witty cozy paranormal mystery for readers of Legends & Lattes and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.