The Midlife Mage

Cassandra Vane is not a young chosen one. She is a forty-five-year-old sorceress with a mortgage she cannot pay, a daughter trying to grow up, and an ex-husband named Marcus who still holds a key.

When a foreclosure notice appears on her door, Cass discovers that the house her family protected for five generations is bound to an old magical debt — one that Marcus took out in her name before they were even married. The creditors are the Thorne family, and they have been waiting for the right moment to collect.

But the house has a memory. The garden has roots. And the women who came before Cass left spells buried in the earth, waiting for her to find them.

To save her home, Cass must remove Marcus’s hidden charms, reclaim her magic, and build an alliance of the overlooked: midlife witches, under-the-table potion brewers, and forgotten practitioners who have nothing left to lose.

The Midlife Mage is a fantasy for adults with a mature protagonist who is competent, imperfect, and powerful. It is a story about divorce, debt, motherhood, and the magic that survives when the world expects you to disappear.