Vanessa M.H. Powers

After the death of his father, Aden and his mother, Sarah, find themselves responsible for the sale of his family home – a place they thought they’d left behind. When Sarah’s friends arrive to help, the task seems almost manageable. However, as they clear out the house, they uncover secrets in Sarah’s past and the sinister nature of the cultivated community Aden was raised in…. And his father’s family.

This comedy of errors follows a young woman through a day that goes from bad to worse. A series of misadventures leads her to the conclusion that perhaps being a 'loser' isn't so bad.

When their high school drama director passes away, Tori, Nathan, Kate, Sienna, Brandon, and April, now in their 30s, return to their hometown for his funeral. They reconnect and see in each other how they've changed, and how they haven't. Making their way through the weekend, they try their best not to let the ennui of adulthood and existential dread brought on by the march of time ruin their reunion.

Natalie joins a book club to regain normalcy after tragedies in her life. However, things take a dark turn when members of the book club start receiving threats.

The precocious and fiercely independent Aima tells her babysitter that the Witch they created in a game of make-believe will never stop chasing them. While the babysitter initially tries to deny Aima’s insistence that the Witch is evil, soon they follow Aima into a world where imagination rules and wildness, magic, and delight are hidden around every corner. Their adventures bring them together with fairies, ghosts, star-lovers, and UFOs, and as they march toward their showdown with the Witch, the unreal becomes reality and the lines between good and evil are blurred. As Aima and her babysitter draw closer and closer to facing down the Witch and the source of her powers, the babysitter must come to terms with what they lost and gained by growing up and learns that sometimes we have to let go to return.