Surviving your forties requires coffee, good friends, and a morally flexible relationship with illegal magic.

Tovah Silver runs Mad Queens Inc., an unlicensed magical problem-solving agency with her best friends. They've built their reputation on grit, loopholes, and relentless competence, ignoring those who think their perimenopausal magic tops out at party tricks.

They’re wrong but correcting them would be a felony. Tovah and her friends are hiding a second set they keep buried—until an assassin golem leaves Tovah no choice.

She thinks she got away with it. Then Nikolai Azarov shows up.

Vancouver’s only golem-maker would call her story creative if he wasn’t too busy calling BS. Worse, once he figures out what she actually did to that golem, he doesn’t turn her in. He names his price.

Now Tovah must honor a dangerous bargain with a man who’s already insufferable without leverage, hunt whoever left a hand-delivered effigy on her bed, and not give the city’s magic cops a reason to shut her down for good.

Middle age isn't a crisis. It's a weapon.

If you love Shannon Mayer’s Forty Proof series and Kim Harrison’s The Hollows, this urban fantasy series delivers a midlife fantasy heroine, sharp banter, and a witty romance.