The Kate Roark Magic Series

Growing up homeschooled on the Renaissance Festival circuit is weird enough, but when you’re the daughter of a powerful binding witch who makes a living as a fortune teller, and your best friend is a middle-aged sari vendor, weird is relative. Fifteen-year-old Kate Roark desperately wants to be a witch but isn't - yet. It’s not likely at her age until she meets the Fortune Taker and gets a taste of unimaginable power - but at what cost? Forced to choose between keeping stolen power or making her magic dreams come true, her ultimate decision throws her entire world into question.

Kate thought she’d never unlock her powers - let alone trigger them by creating a familiar out of a cross-eyed pigeon. Before she can celebrate the good news, a terrifying bounty hunter kidnaps her mother. In a race against time to save her mother, Kate runs afoul of a dragon, and even worse, the most feared creatures in existence: the dreaded forest gnomes. To top it all off, she discovers long-lost magical family members who maybe should have stayed lost. Kate is finally a witch - but it just might kill her. 

It turns out not even witchcraft can defeat child custody laws, and Kate is forced to spend the summer with her completely odious demon father. Worse yet, he intends to force her to do a soul coin deal at the end of the summer. Plus, both of her best friends have become pregnant at the exact same time, which means something weird is going on.