Lilou

Do you choose to be a witch? Or does witchcraft choose you?Linda Kelleher, or Lilou, faces a dilemma. She is a regular Pittsburgh girl, growing up in the beautiful Shadyside neighborhood. She looks up to her older sister, tries to meet her mother's expectations and loves to study math with her father. Numbers have always made sense to her in a way people never did.Only…something is never quite right.No matter how hard she tries to lead a regular life, the world of sorcery and magic has a claim on her: Lilou comes from a powerful family of witches.When her first love Gary resurfaces after his failed marriage, Lilou must confront the magical heritage she's spent a lifetime denying.What starts as a second chance at romance quickly spirals into something darker as Lilou discovers she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Her grandmother's revelation about her true nature forces her to question everything - including whether her rekindled relationship with Gary is real love or the result of a dangerous spell cast years ago.

If you try to ignore it for too long, magic might just catch up with you. What happens when everyday life collides with the generational memory of witchcraft? Lilou learns it the hard way.After choosing accounting over witchcraft, Lilou is finally at peace. She earnestly leads a normal life: she is a wife, a mother, and an ambitious employee at a prestigious firm, trying to break the glass ceiling.Only the occult is all around her.During a moment of crisis, Lilou meets a domovoy, a hobgoblin who lives in her home and claims to protect her from harm. The creature is impossible to ignore, and forces her to acknowledge that the world is more complex than she'd ever imagined. The encounter with the domovoy changes the trajectory of Lilou's life and makes her reconsider her choices. She embraces her destiny and joins her rightful place in a line of powerful witches.

Lilou is a witch. Now what?Having been initiated into the craft by her French grandmother, Lilou returns to Pittsburgh without a plan. Magic is of little help when dealing with a divorce. Nor does it help in her everyday job as an accountant.The only lifeline to her magical abilities is Josh, Lilou's house elf or a domovoy, as he likes to be called.Josh leads Lilou on a journey of self-discovery and helps her understand the parallel universe of household helpers. Once she finds a way to cooperate with the magical creatures, she comes to terms with her new abilities and comes into her own as a witch.