Seeking Representation

Two witches. A portal. And lots of homework. Also a hot vet. And a perfect pair of Prada boots.

Clueless meets Rachel Griffin in EARLY MAGIC, a 98,000-word YA contemporary fantasy. It combines the emotionally rich magic of Griffin's Wild Is the Witch with the teenage witchcraft of Alyssa Villaire's The Glittering Edge, but set against the surftown backdrop of Santa Cruz, CA.

Rowan Standish is sixteen, cocksure, and heir to both a fortune and a magical legacy. As the granddaughter of the High Priestess of the Ilitra Lor coven, her path to power should be a breeze—if she could just keep her ego in check. Fed up with her grandmother’s rules and sensing latent magic in her classmate Danika, Rowan starts her own rogue coven.

Danika, still reeling after her mother’s sudden death and unaware of her hereditary powers, is caught between the undertow of guilt and depression and her resurfacing desire to hit the waves. She welcomes the distraction of an invitation to Rowan’s coven. But the fun implodes when Rowan loses her magic to a trickster daemon and the mini coven fractures.

Desperate to get her magic back, Rowan joins up with a dubious visiting professor to hunt for a missing portal, and must decide if she's willing to betray Danika to reclaim her own power. Meanwhile, Danika’s sixteenth birthday ignites her magic, leading to a chance to join the Ilitra Lor coven and connect with her mother’s memory. But she finds disturbing links between her mom’s research into mysterious stone keys, her sudden death, and Rowan’s research. Though perceived betrayals keep the girls apart, their trajectories edge closer with every revelation, and if they don’t find a way to work together, the birthplace of magic itself could fall into the hands of a power-hungry druidess.

This dual POV standalone novel is the first in a proposed series.