An Inherited Midlife

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ava Harper-Walker has it all. She's married to the world's best man has a wonderful family with her first grandbaby on the way and a whole band of friends to call her own. She figures the reason for all her blessings is that other things continue to go absolutely haywire in her life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The moment she and Drew return from their honeymoon they have to rush off to battle a raging sea monster that escaped from Hell. And of course Luci is nowhere to be found. He's presumably searching for the last escapees who continue to elude him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But hey it's okay. Ava's got this. She gets the disgusting sea monster-slime tentacles Ew-back to its fiery prison then returns home to find the Vikings have come to call. They want Alfred and they want him bad.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Over Ava's dead body.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When one of her favorite people goes missing aka Alfred Ava goes into mama-bear mode. Nobody is going to get away with stealing her friend and butler. The immortal Vikings are the first names on her suspect list but was it really them?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The truth stone aids in the search but Ava begins to doubt even that as everyone who has ever met Alfred becomes a suspect.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not to mention Winnie. As Alfred's main squeeze Aunt Winnie is losing it. And that is putting it mildly.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Winnie begins giving their family and friends the skeptical side-eye Ava knows she's got to find Alfred and fast. Not just for his safety but for the safety of anyone who crosses Winnie's path.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Witching After Forty series is part of the Life After Magic World. </span></p>