Mathilda Holiday

Who can you trust when your allies' minds are no longer their own?Mattie and Tillie finally seemed to be gaining ground against the Auditors - the shadowy secret society of mages that has hunted them for months. With the help of former Auditor agents who defected to their side, victory felt possible.Until those same allies begin turning on them.Whatever spell is controlling the former agents isn't anything they recognize - and it may be stronger than anything the Auditors have used before.If Mattie, Tillie, and Trevor can't uncover the source of the magic and break it in time, they won't just lose their progress against the organization. They'll lose their friends.Hello, Darkness is the third book in the Mathilda Holiday series - a fast-paced urban fantasy of secret societies, dangerous magic, and the cost of fighting back. Anna McCluskey is an Oregon-based, semi-nomadic, almost-entirely-feral fantasy author. When she isn't writing (and sometimes even when she is) you can find her traveling around the country on the train, having the weirdest adventures ever. You can read about these adventures on her Substack, The Neurodivergent Nomad.She is the author of the Mathilda Holiday series, the Rhymes With Witch series, and the upcoming Warrior Mage Librarians series. She has had several poems published in journals and anthologies, and her short fiction has been read by at least a dozen people, many of whom murmured appreciatively about it.

Magic is real - and it's a bitch.Mattie's life is going through a bit of a downward spiral these days. So when she learns that Tillie, her twin sister, is missing, she drops everything and rushes across the country to join her friend, Trevor, in the search.As they start to dig, they stumble across a secret room in Tillie's condo filled with crystal balls and books about magic. Suddenly people all around them are doing spells, manipulating time, and disappearing into thin air, and they soon realize they're in over their heads.A group of powerful mages is hunting Tillie. Will Mattie, Tillie, Trevor, and their friends be able to defeat them or will they be crushed under the relentless heels of an ancient power? Find out in this thrilling fast-paced action packed urban fantasy series!