Finding the Witch's Way
Doris C. Rusch
Published by Vanguard Press, 2025
Her auntie died. That's, of course, too bad. But Lou didn't
really know her very well and Auntie left her a cottage in the
woods at the edge of some village on a little island in the
Baltic. That, to Lou, sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime chance
to back out of the outwardly successful but inwardly
dissatisfying life situation she finds herself in and figure out
what she really wants.
Regarding the "not having known auntie very well": one
thing Lou didn't know was that auntie was a powerful witch.
With her cottage comes a whole lot of magical baggage. As
things get weird real fast around Lou, she needs to discover
her own dormant witchy powers, if she wants to keep her
neck in this neck of the woods.
Her constantly quibbling inner voices - the 'part that knows'
and the 'part that doubts' - have many (conflicting) opinions
along the way. The magical bookshelf is only helpful when
asked the right question, Luke, the talking raven, is more
rude than erudite, and other witches can only be trusted as
far as you can fling their broomsticks. Come hell, highwater
or a thunderstorm of turkeys, Lou must find her witch
powers, and in the process, a whole new path begins to
reveal itself to her that might just help her reimagine her
life. That is, if she manages to survive.
(The text above comes from the back of the book)