Toil & Trouble

This extraordinary collection of fifteen stories celebrates witches using their power and claiming their destinies.THERE'S NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITCH WHO BELIEVES IN HERSELF.Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill…and to live. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power…and destroy their captors.NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH!Featuring stories by:Tehlor Kay MejiaAndrea RobertsonTess SharpeLindsay SmithBrandy ColbertShveta ThakrarRobin TalleyNova Ren SumaZoraida CordovaBrenna YovanoffKate HartJessica SpotswoodAnna-Marie McLemoreEmery LordElizabeth May