Midlife, Hexes, and Hot Messes

She's not cursed. She's just powerful.

Gail Pelkey is forty-eight, freshly fired, and driving south with no plan and a bag of gas station Cheetos. She's spent her entire adult life managing other people's events, only to watch every single one end in catastrophe. Chandeliers fall. Sound systems explode. Ice sculptures melt on contact.

When she stumbles into Siren Springs, Arizona, she expects a quiet place to fall apart in peace. Instead, she finds a coven of midlife witches who tell her the chaos isn't bad luck. It's magic. And they've been waiting for someone exactly like her.

Now the ley lines beneath Siren Springs are failing, coyotes are speaking English, and the local coffee shop's espresso machine has developed a personality. Gail's the only one who can find the source of the damage. Too bad every time she uses her power, something else catches fire.

There's also the retired fire captain next door. He doesn't flinch when things explode around her. She doesn't know what to do with that.