Introducing my newest work in progress: Hill Country

When peril finds the Bissonnettes, the women of the family respond in kind.

Thirteen crows deliver a dire summons to Ivy Bissonnette’s high-rise apartment in Chicago, and she heeds their demand to race to home to rural Michigan. Not a moment after she crosses the wards into the family estate does she learn that her Gran was murdered. Her death frees the Bissonnette Matriarch’s magic. Ivy’s mother must carry out a ritual to become their new leader and keep the magic from abandoning the makes Ivy the heir to the Bissonnette dynasty. She sinks her teeth into the heir’s responsibilities, hunting for Gran’s murderer, preparing for the Matriarchal ritual, and wading through presumptuous business ideas pitched by magicless male cousins who have more audacity than sense.

The Matriarchal ritual fails, nearly killing both Ivy and her mom. In the aftermath, Ivy discovers Gran’s diary in which she anticipated that the Matriarchal magic would bypass Ivy’s mom and go to Ivy instead. The entires direct Ivy to carry out another deadly ceremony which will secure their magic before Gran’s murderer can steal it. Ivy has nearly gathered the power when three male cousins intervene and reveal that they were behind Gran’s death, so they could take the magic from the women of the family and carry out their business in the way they’d prefer: pushing their magic to its limits with selfish motivations. But for thousands of years, the Bissonnette women have never allowed men to take their magic, and Ivy will not surrender for her cousins to steal hers