It's going to take a lot more than parlor tricks and mascara to get this job done, but with her reputation, commission, and a tentative romance on the line, Margo's not about to throw in the broom just yet. The creepy manor is plagued by ghosts, bats, and a greedy developer. Margo's new life seems to be going well, until broody hunk Dylan Hernández solicits her to sell his childhood home before the bank forecloses on it. Her "parlor tricks" include shining windows, mopping floors, and vanishing dust with a twitchy blink of her eyes. Mild hearth magic might not have impressed the wicked West fam, but it does wonders for open houses. After landing in a strange little town of Shifters in West Virginia, she decides to try her hand at real estate. So, when her gran passes away, leaving her temperamental broomstick to her most incompetent granddaughter, Margo takes off. Over the last several years, I’ve drifted away from core (mainstream) horror fiction to the extent that I haven’t read the last few Stephen King novels (something that I could not have imagined less than a decade ago). Margo West hardly has enough magic to fill a dustpan. How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley 978-0-59320-126-8, 28.00, 400p, hc) January 2023. Being a magical runt in a notorious family of witches is a fate worse than death.
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