I don’t even have kids but I understand this reality, that it’s one of the biggest responsibilities a person or couple can undertake. We’ve all heard the saying, “ Any fool can have a child…”, and that sentiment carries with it the idea that parenting is complex, multifaceted, and rarely easy. Okay, let’s talk about poverty, the desolation of desperation, and the fact that there are good people and bad people in this world, and many of them, both good and bad, happen to be parents. Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty or confront the darkness before it’s too late.

The further she goes, the more she risks the lives of not only herself, but those she loves. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go.īut magic doesn’t come for free, and soon dark forces are closing in on Katrell. However, when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. What do ghosts know about eating peanut butter for dinner? Things get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summoning’s or she’ll “burn everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff, though. Clients pay her to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Katrell doesn’t mind talking to the dead she just wishes it made more money. Now Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it’s too late.For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. Only magic isn’t free, and dark forces are coming to collect. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go. What do ghosts know of having sleep for dinner? But when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. Katrell is willing to call the ghosts on their bluff she has no choice. And it comes with a warning: STOP or there will be consequences. Money’s still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention.

She’s been able to support her unemployed mother - and Mom’s deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week - so far, but it isn’t enough. Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literatureįor fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.

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