The Ghost Town Forest

I saw the full moon and knew my quiet evening was over.

Nine hundred years as a witch, and I'm still paying off magical debt for helping people without authorization. Complete nonsense, but I'll tell you about that later. For now, just know the penalty: monthly impossible assignments, rationed magic, and zero say in what cosmic bureaucracy thinks I should fix next.

This month's task: replant a ghost town's forest.

Easy, right? Except the forest's been dead for decades, the soil won't hold life, and a terrifying ghost schoolteacher is determined to stop me. Oh, and there's a raven who's been trapped in a cage for decades with deliberately broken wings—he knows where the seeds are buried, but healing him might cost me everything.

Good thing I've got Tibby, my infinite-life cat, to keep me company while I break every rule about love magic and life force I'm supposed to follow.

Thirty days. Seven seeds. One impossible forest. And a cosmic verdict that doesn't care how hard I tried.

Moon Over Marisol is a cozy fantasy about breaking curses, healing the broken, and the wondrous perils of being too generous in a bafflingly arbitrary universe. Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, and magical cats who've seen it all before.