A wannabe witch tries to break a curse on a clueless client in this laugh-out-loud debut for fans of queer romantic fantasy by TJ Klune and Tamsyn Muir.Mateo Borrero has problemsand all of them hinge on his missing bruja mother and the demon she trapped inside his body.Mateos mother forbade him from ever using magic, but now that shes gone, magics his only marketable skill, and hed really like an exorcismwhich costs money he doesnt have. Whats the harm in making a quick buck by calling himself an Occult Specialist and chanting a few half-remembered spells in his crappy Spanish?Enter Topher, a naive nepo baby with a curse that keeps killing people around him. Most importantly, hes rich, and too clueless to clock that Mateoand his absolutely-not-the-assistant astral-projecting best friend Opheliahave never actually had a client before. Lifting Tophers bad luck curse should be simple, but as luck would have it, nothing is simple, and Topherwho Mateo sort of, kind of likesmight be at the center of a deadly magical conspiracy. To make matters worse, the more magic Mateo does, the stronger the demon inside him grows and the more he wants to eat people. But would caving to the urges of an ancient evil really be that bad if it helps him get a payday?Legends and Lattes meets A Grim Reapers Guide to Catching a Killer in this hilarious and charming queer romantic fantasy readers wont want to miss.
