Tanya Huff introduces a new cast of characters in her latest quirky urban fantasy featuring the extended Gale family, complete with a full compliment of meddling Aunties with enough witchy powers to make their threats stick. Twenty four year old Alysha Catherine Gale had just moved back to the family homestead after funding for her museum job ran out. Allie enjoyed being home with all the Cousins and Aunties even if they did drive her up the wall from time to time but this was not how she envisioned her life.
Shortly after Allie’s grandmother missed an important celebration, she inherited all her grandmother’s possessions including a funky junk shop in Calgary. Although looking forward to the challenge of finding out what happened to her grandmother, Allie soon realizes there is more to running the shop and catering to an unusual clientele then anyone suspected. Aided by a leprechaun, drawn to a reporter with a secret agenda and stalked by parties unknown, Allie discovers Calgary is to be the epicenter of something monumental emerging into the world. It will take the Gale family’s combined power and then some to stop what’s coming and along the way, Allie makes some important discoveries that will forever alter family dynamics.
Fun, fast and filled with snappy dialogue as well as meddling family, this fantasy read delivers a strong story tempered with a wayward heart and bone deep obligations. Magic mirrors, Fey and dragons arise from assorted mythologies to prove there is a lot going on in Calgary and in Huff’s fertile imagination.
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