Sensible Summons

Missy Due has spent twenty years being sensible. Boring job, failing relationship, nearly dead car, and zero intention of believing in the magic her great-aunt Clementine tried to teach her at fifteen.

Then Clementine dies, and Missy inherits The Dusty Rose Hotel & Curio Shoppe in the tiny desert town of Due, California.

The coffee maker makes its own coffee. The pipes hum show tunes. The rooms have opinions. And Mrs. Pemberton, who has haunted the place since 1912, is deeply unimpressed with Missy's housekeeping.

Then Missy learns the truth. The Dusty Rose is protected by old magical wards, and for decades Clementine kept an ancient darkness locked out beyond them. Now the wards are failing, and Missy is the only witch who can fix them.

Small problem. She doesn't know how to use magic. She barely knows how to run a hotel. And something out in the desert has already noticed she's home.

With a cranky Victorian ghost, a two-colored cat, a hardware-store witch, a bookshop owner, and a town that won't let her face it alone, Missy has to learn fast.

The coffee is always ready. The ghost has opinions. The cat knows everything. And the darkness is getting hungry.

A cozy urban fantasy about haunted hotels, found family, and a late-blooming witch.