A day in my life? I’m betting it’s nothing like yours, unless you’re also trying to catch a unicorn. The first time I saw the unicorn, I thought she was just a horse with a weird head-goiter. Now, I’ve learned those mystical beings absolutely exist, and they carry magic in their horns. I desperately needed that. Since an evil goddess cast the love of my life — Angus, the Celtic god of youth, love, and laughter — into stone, I required a unicorn’s magic to break Angus free. So far, she’s alluded me.. That beast won’t remain out of my grasp forever!

See what I mean? Not like any day in your life.

I’m also working undercover for the FBI as a server in Madame Woo’s Chinese and American Cuisine in Flagstaff, Arizona, where I’m currently based. We servers deliver psychic readings along with our stuffed mushroom caps.

But my readings have become challenging. I’m proud to say I’ve been a fake psychic for ages. I figure I served the public good by telling my clients that what they want to happen is precisely what will. So, dishing out that kind of patter should be a snap for me, right? Wrong. I’d developed genuine psychic gifts during the course of our last caper. Now, I hear voices regularly — too bad I never know if those words are being uttered in the next room, or on the other side of the world, whether they’re happening at this moment, or have yet to happen. As for my readings…these days it’s hard to tell whether I’m working from a real vision, or like always, lying my butt off.

When I’m not trying to hijack a unicorn, I’m living again with my bestie, Special Agent Annabelle Haggerty, who is secretly a contemporary Celtic goddess hidden within the FBI. Work-wise things aren’t going well for either of us. While I’m often lost in a vision blizzard, Haggerty has experienced the most frightening dimming of her powers. Precisely when we need them most.

Magic has come out of the closet with what the media is calling the Great Disappearance. In the blink of an eye, iconic structures throughout the world have vanished. As for all the people in them at the time — goners, all of them. Now, the world’s mortal citizens are shaking down to their bloomers, having grasped humans have all the ability to fight the powerful force behind the disappearance as gnats in a tornado.

If that weren’t bad enough, I can’t shake the life-sized troll doll that follows me everywhere, and suddenly, trees around me shake so violently, it’s like they’re having seizures. Is that even possible?

With all the supernatural crimes continuing to come our way, and with Haggerty’s powers becoming unpredictable, I fear saving the world might come down to me. You really gotta pity a planet facing the unimaginable ruin I see in my visions with only a good time girl like me to save it.

Magical Mushrooms, A Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery Book #3
Genre: Humorous Paranormal Mystery
Release: October 2023
Format: Print, Digital
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With the worldwide Great Disappearance, magic has come out of the closet. In the blink of an eye, iconic structures around the world have vanished. As for all the people who had been in those buildings at the time — goners, all of them. But the dynamic duo are on the case again: Special Agent Annabelle Haggerty, a genuine Celtic goddess hidden within the FBI, and her flakey sidekick, questionable psychic Samantha Brennan. Too bad neither of them is at he best. Annabelle struggles with an inexplicable dimming of her powers. For Samantha, things are the opposite. She now possesses genuine psychic gifts, only she can’t begin to control her new skills. Vision blizzard!

Magical beings abound: A life-sized, back-stabbing troll, a snarky unicorn, not to mention trees that shake so violently, they look like they’re having seizures. Yet none seem related to their case.

Secrets tear the two friends apart. When the world is struck by a new round of supernatural crimes, and Annabelle can no longer trust her divine gifts, saving the world might come down to Samantha. She pities a planet facing the unimaginable ruin she sees in her visions with only a good-time girl like her to save it.

About the author
Since Kris Neri heard so many Celtic legends growing up, she longed to be either a goddess or a leprechaun. Although neither wish came true, she now writes about both, and other magical beings, in her humorous Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mysteries. The earlier novels in the series, High Crimes on the Magical Plane and Magical Alienation were both Lefty Award finalists for Best Humorous Mystery Novel, and Magical Alienation won a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She lives in the mountains of Southwestern New Mexico with her husband and two pushy terriers. Visit her website: krisneriauthor.wordpress.com.