the_trouble_with_magicby Madalyn Alt
Berkley, Mass Market Paperback

Margaret Mary-Catherine O’Neill was a good God-fearing Catholic who went to church on Sundays just like everyone else in Stony Mill, Indiana. Now Maggie is a grown up lapsed Catholic with a basement apartment, a dull, dead-end job, and a mother and sister who never fail to point out her shortcomings.

When Maggie takes shelter from a rainstorm one day in a gift shop called Enchantments, she suddenly finds herself with a new job and a new outlook. Only one catch: her new boss, Felicity Dow, is a self-proclaimed witch. A good, goddess-worshipping witch, but a witch nonetheless. And witches aren’t exactly welcome in Stony Mill, Indiana.

Maggie’s budding friendship with Felicity and the ghost-hunting misfits who make up her “coven” lead her to recognize empathic talents of her own, and when Felicity is arrested for murder, Maggie must use all of her powers—both earthly and unearthly—to prove her friend innocent. Getting in the way is handsome Deputy Sheriff Tom Fielding, who pursues a romance with Maggie even as he tries to prove Felicity guilty.