Manifestly Messy Millie

She went looking for the source of a strange blue light. She came back with a hole in the world, a spirit guide made mostly of glitter, and the family she never knew she needed.Nineteen, adrift, and quietly heartbroken over the grandmother she just lost, Millie Mae wants two things: a little bookstore of her own, and a decent role in the community theater. What she gets instead is a doorway.When Millie touches a patch of impossible, glowing mushrooms behind her apartment building, she does not have a near-death experience. She has a straight-through-the-door one, and she comes back changed. Now she can accidentally manifest apple pie, exploding toasters, self-folding socks, and the occasional inflatable flamingo, all under the enthusiastic supervision of Sparkle, an antlered, glitter-dusted spirit guide with a hummingbird on one shoulder and an opinion about everything.She is not the only one. One wonderfully weird person at a time, Millie finds her people: an empath who feels too much, a young woman who talks to animals, a telekinetic yogi, a quiet finder of lost things, a purple-haired woman who has been gathering the newly awakened for longer than she lets on, and Chloe, her gloriously ordinary best friend. Together they become Manifestly Messy, a coven of the beautifully unqualified.But magic like theirs attracts collectors. When the charming Julian Vance and his glossy Lucent Institute come hunting the doorway behind Millie's building, promising her the world and meaning to put a fence and a price tag around a sacred thing, the coven has to protect a place that cannot protect itself, armed with nothing but their ridiculous, specific, hard-won gifts and one entirely ordinary friend.Warm, funny, and unexpectedly moving, Manifestly Messy Millie is a cozy fantasy about grief and found family, about the people who finally see you when the rest of the world does not, and about learning to hold the things you love without holding them too tight.Perfect for readers who like their witches messy, their humor dry, and their happy endings well and truly earned.