Evelyn Harbinger is a heck of a lot older than she looks. At 149 years
of age, Eve can still iron out the wrinkles on a Saturday night, turning
heads and taking more than phone numbers as the foxy, dark-haired girl
she used to be. She and her sisters have spent the better part of their
lives using their powers for only the highest good--Eve herself spied
for the Allies in Paris and Berlin--but in their golden years, the
beldames are free to enjoy themselves however they please.
When Eve meets Justin at her favorite curiosity shop, though, her games
are over. Justin looks and acts uncannily like Jonah, her partner on the
most dangerous mission of her career--and the great love of her life.
Experts in espionage, Eve and Jonah gave up their one chance at
happiness to advance the Allied cause, and no man has measured up ever
since. Justin is unsuspecting but equally smitten, and Eve is much too
headstrong to listen to the common-sense warnings of her coven.
Meanwhile, another beldame has accused Eve's sister Helena of killing
her own husband sixty years before, and Eve, disguised as her younger
self, spends more and more time with Justin to take her mind off the
growing pile of evidence that suggests her sister isn't the pure-hearted
matriarch she appears to be.
Eve knows her family has every reason to disapprove and that falling in
love with an ordinary man can only end in despair, but she can't give up
the boy who might be Jonah--because this time, she just might be able to
keep him.
A delightfully romantic adventure set between a supernatural version of
present-day New York City and the epic backdrop of World War II, Petty
Magic proves that the real fun starts when beldames and mortal men dare
to fall in love.
