In Too Much Magic, Pepper Paull, a good witch, lives alone with her familiar, an owl named Whittlesbee, and runs a small magic book shop. Most of her business is from other witches or those curious about magic and magicals. In Baltimore, as in most other cities, there is a full range of people, humans and magicals.Magicals include werewolves, witches, vampires, elves and many others.Pepper is the last of the Hesperus witches, a powerful family of good witches out of the Hidden. With many attempts on her life, illegal retribution, she's grown used to uncertainty and danger. So she lives quietly, drawing no attention to herself while helping those who cross her path. Her one passion and pursuit is the learning of magic.Then a mysterious cloaked figure sends Pepper to a secret auction to buy an infamous book that had once been deliberately lost in the sea.There are others who want the book and others who want the book along with the witch who can interpret and use the magic within.This one book propels Pepper onto a path she might have preferred avoiding. Pepper is not one to turn from a challenge, but can she maintain the integrity that is a fundamental of her life, while fighting for her freedom? Is it destiny that rips her from her quiet life or something more random? As the last of her line is she the jewel her forebears hope for?The ghosts who have trained her from childhood now hint at Purpose.When a young werewolf girl comes into her life, needing her help, she is caught up in the conflict. With them is a Lawyer, a Huntsman from Hell and a guy named Mike…Pepper's life will never be the same.This is Book 1 of The Merged Worlds series Born and raised in and around Baltimore, Maryland.(I started the year the Orioles moved there) I started reading at an average age, then I found fiction - Ghost stories - and my imagination kicked into gear. Between reading science fiction, fantasy, comic books, detective stories, westerns and other tall tales I didn't have much time for writing. But in those spare moments when the dreamer held rein... I considered what might go on paper.During a busy life I met all kinds of interesting people and have seen some interesting situations, both fun and tragic. What that richness has given me, (besides two wonderful daughters) is a wealth of information to create characters who enjoy telling the stories they're in.I've created worlds, universes and tales in stacks of notebooks (yes, I write with a pen) that I enjoy and I hope others will as well. It takes time and effort to write but I find it takes nearly as much to get my stories to the epub stage.This isn't much of a profile or bio, I suppose, but I hope you find more enjoyment in my stories. It's always more fun to read the story than look to see who's behind the curtain making it up... The realms of Heaven, Hell, Earth and the Hidden have been merging, converging through the physical plane. Witches, Wizards, Werewolves, Vampires and all the other magicals live beside ordinary humans in this world. Magic protects, orders, and guides the lives of all inhabitants. The weak need protecting and tyrants need to be put down. Pepper Paull had always considered herself an academic, a witch who likes books and learning of magic. Stacey Bowen had been a party girl and waitress, now she was a vampire. These two alternate the lead in this series of books. At times they work together... they must... as war is coming...
