Description: Francie Vespertine has lived all her life in a supernatural town full of powerful witches, but her own magic is lackluster at best. The only place she fits in is the Magical Archives. Head librarian (and bookworm extraordinaire) might be a boring job ... if it wasn't for the ghosts of fictional characters haunting the shelves.
Between stopping Captain Ahab from wreaking havoc on aisle three and keeping her fussy feline familiar satisfied (he only eats wild-caught Pacific Salmon, thank you very much), Francie's established a comfortable routine--which is just how she likes it. Until a historian is found dead in the Non-Fiction section and Francie's life goes from cozy to mystery. Half the town saw Francie argue with the man only hours before he was murdered. The Werewolf Law Enforcement Brigade is eager to close the case, and with Francie as the prime suspect, she has to find the real killer or trade her beloved library for a jail cell. She's got a lot on her plate. Fortunately so does Kongressman Kittles. But maybe if Francie keeps his piled high with Lobster Thermidor, then he'll get off his silk pillow and lend a paw ...Brief description: Skye Sullivan lives in Los Angeles, but yearns for a magic wand to whisk her away to anywhere else. She studied creative writing at the University of California, but if they knew she'd one day be writing stories about witches solving murders with talking animals, the program director would have given her spot to someone else. Her pecan pie literally won an award and one time in 1994 a magician picked her to come up on stage to be part of the trick, so she's pretty much perfectly qualified to be writing this stuff. She's got two small kids, a husband, and a cat-and all the dishrags, overflowing laundry baskets, and legos to prove it.