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Hartshorn Publishing, a division of Eimarra Press
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Pepper Karalis, Boston's only technowitch, doesn't spend a lot of time hanging out with other witches.Most of the time, she's too busy working at a coffee shop and raising her twins to bother with magic, although it's there when she wants it.But then she runs across the ghost of a murdered woman in a neighborhood parking garage - the first of many. The ghosts are raising tempers everywhere, and Boston's other witches are certain Pepper's to blame, even though she's doing everything she can to banish the ghosts.Now she needs to find the real killer and clear her name before the other witches decide they have to stop her permanently...
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Very interesting! A not-quite-standard urban fantasy. Pepper is a witch, or at least a magic-user - but the witches, the only other magic-users she knows, don't trust her because her magic doesn't follow their rules. So she's left to try to figure things out on her own. "Things", near the start of
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the story, include a ghost that's leaking rage and hatred over a large area of the city (Boston) - she's tied to a parking garage, but her influence is spreading. And then another ghost shows up, and another... Pepper's dealing with that, with changes in her job, with pressure from the father of her children (or, as she corrects, she's the mother of his children), with a new person who is wildly attractive, very magical, and very mysterious; and on top of it all, there's changes in her own powers. She becomes aware, for the first time, of all the magical beings that inhabit Boston along with its human residents - some helpful, some adding new pressures, and some just being mysterious. And then things heat up. Pepper's world is very solidly expressed; I don't know Boston well, but Erin made me feel and see it. I'm amused that, for once, the story doesn't stop to deal with attraction - the attraction is part of the story, a very necessary part. The structures of magic presented here are fascinating, too. Next, please! My sister pointed me at this story; I'll be reading more by Erin Hartshorn, and eagerly awaiting a sequel to this. Show Less
Original publication date
2017-04-30
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Boston Technowitch, 1
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