Awaken, Witch!: Lightbeard's School for the Broken
(2024)(The first book in the Delta Underground Operatives Retired series)
A novel by N A Grotepas
I’ve been seeing things that should never exist.
My name is Ivy Danielle and the very fabric of my world is unraveling.
To be fair, it had already gone to crap with the divorce, but once I got moved into my own place, I thought I’d turned a corner.
But no. Somehow things got worse.
I’m not quite sure what to do with the appearance of a talking magpie and a blustery fellow who can make things move without touching them, but they both assure me I’m just getting started.
When your life takes a sudden nosedive, all you can do is hold on for the ride and learn to navigate the rapids. Some might call that “going with the flow,” I call it something far less romantic: survival.
A divorce and a move are two of the highest stressors a person can endure—and, as a neuropsychologist, I should know. I usually deal with head injuries and testing, however, and not… well, whatever is going on with me.
Matters had been going as swimmingly as they could, all things considered, until now.
It went down like this: during my first Christmas without my children, I wandered into a quaint new bookstore, looking for a calm place to wait out an evening snowstorm. To put it mildly, I saw things that I never should have seen.
That was the moment. The moment all the madness began.
Well, the new madness. The old madness was just your garden variety average mid-life madness: psychological patients needing testing and care, kids needing lunch money and hugs, laundry needing washing and folding, and all that normal, mundane stuff that we take for granted as being oh so hard.
I’d give anything to have that perspective back.
As far as I can tell, there’s no recovery now that I’ve met Lightbeard, Amanita (yes, of the poisonous mushroom variety), and their magpie called Pie.
They insist on me being the first student of their new school. They insist I’m destined for all kinds of things, notably things that involve what they call the "unseen world." A hidden world! I’m not buying it, even with one of its very own denizens—a feathery one with beady black eyes—staring me square in the face and talking to me.
If I can’t overcome my curiosity to figure out what the crap is going on, these two are going to ruin my life to the point that I’ll have no choice but to check myself into a psychiatric hospital.
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Genre: Urban Fantasy
My name is Ivy Danielle and the very fabric of my world is unraveling.
To be fair, it had already gone to crap with the divorce, but once I got moved into my own place, I thought I’d turned a corner.
But no. Somehow things got worse.
I’m not quite sure what to do with the appearance of a talking magpie and a blustery fellow who can make things move without touching them, but they both assure me I’m just getting started.
When your life takes a sudden nosedive, all you can do is hold on for the ride and learn to navigate the rapids. Some might call that “going with the flow,” I call it something far less romantic: survival.
A divorce and a move are two of the highest stressors a person can endure—and, as a neuropsychologist, I should know. I usually deal with head injuries and testing, however, and not… well, whatever is going on with me.
Matters had been going as swimmingly as they could, all things considered, until now.
It went down like this: during my first Christmas without my children, I wandered into a quaint new bookstore, looking for a calm place to wait out an evening snowstorm. To put it mildly, I saw things that I never should have seen.
That was the moment. The moment all the madness began.
Well, the new madness. The old madness was just your garden variety average mid-life madness: psychological patients needing testing and care, kids needing lunch money and hugs, laundry needing washing and folding, and all that normal, mundane stuff that we take for granted as being oh so hard.
I’d give anything to have that perspective back.
As far as I can tell, there’s no recovery now that I’ve met Lightbeard, Amanita (yes, of the poisonous mushroom variety), and their magpie called Pie.
They insist on me being the first student of their new school. They insist I’m destined for all kinds of things, notably things that involve what they call the "unseen world." A hidden world! I’m not buying it, even with one of its very own denizens—a feathery one with beady black eyes—staring me square in the face and talking to me.
If I can’t overcome my curiosity to figure out what the crap is going on, these two are going to ruin my life to the point that I’ll have no choice but to check myself into a psychiatric hospital.
Scroll up, click buy, and start on an unforgettable journey with Ivy Danielle, Lightbeard, and Amanita Damonica in the making of a school expressly for the broken.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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