Midlife & Manticores - The Crystal Hollow, #6

Dating is hard.

Dating when a manticore has marked you as its prey is harder.

Lena Hartwell is forty-eight, divorced, and finally ready to put herself out there. Against her better judgment — and with the encouragement of her daughter and a glass of wine — she downloads Crystal Connections, the town's only dating app.

She matches with David. Handsome. Charming. New in town.

He's everything she didn't know she was looking for.

Until he pulls out a silver coin with a manticore stamped on it and tells her he's a bounty hunter for the underworld.

Now Lena is caught between two worlds. The manticore that escaped from the underworld is hunting her, drawn to her powerful magic. David wants to protect her. The Underworld Council wants to use her. And her coven is watching her every move, worried she's falling for a man who might be more dangerous than the creature he's hunting.

But Lena Hartwell doesn't run from danger.

She faces it head-on.

With David by her side, she tracks the manticore through the dark forests around Crystal Hollow. She learns to hunt. She learns to trust. And she discovers that sometimes, the best partnerships start when you least expect them.

Midlife & Manticores is the sixth book in The Crystal Hollow Series — a twenty-book journey perfect for fans of Practical Magic, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, and anyone who believes that midlife is the perfect time for adventure, romance, and fighting mythical creatures.

What readers are saying about the series:

"Finally, a fantasy heroine who dates monsters and bounty hunters in the same week."
"I swooned. I laughed. I wanted to hug the Mandrake."
"The slow-burn romance is everything I didn't know I needed."

Perfect for readers who love:

The manticore is hunting her. The bounty hunter is protecting her. And the only thing standing between Crystal Hollow and disaster is a menopausal witch who's just trying to get a decent date.

Welcome back to Crystal Hollow.
Love is in the air. So is the manticore.