The Ghost Town Forest

I saw the full moon and knew my quiet evening was over.Nine hundred years as a witch, and I'm still paying off magical debt for helping people without authorization. Complete nonsense, but I'll tell you about that later. For now, just know the penalty: monthly impossible assignments, rationed magic, and zero say in what cosmic bureaucracy thinks I should fix next.This month's task: replant a ghost town's forest.Easy, right? Except the forest's been dead for decades, the soil won't hold life, and a terrifying ghost schoolteacher is determined to stop me. Oh, and there's a raven who's been trapped in a cage for decades with deliberately broken wings-he knows where the seeds are buried, but healing him might cost me everything.Good thing I've got Tibby, my infinite-life cat, to keep me company while I break every rule about love magic and life force I'm supposed to follow.Thirty days. Seven seeds. One impossible forest. And a cosmic verdict that doesn't care how hard I tried.Moon Over Marisol is a cozy fantasy about breaking curses, healing the broken, and the wondrous perils of being too generous in a bafflingly arbitrary universe. Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, and magical cats who've seen it all before. Dennis Santaniello is a New Jersey–born author who writes novels, screenplays, and essays. His work moves between historical fiction and nonfiction, with a steady interest in how people carry memory, loyalty, and damage through time. His books include Sergei and Hans, a World War I novel set on the Eastern Front, The Conquistadors Trilogy about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the nonfiction series The Fruits of History, and Dennis At The Movies. He publishes independently and approaches his work with patience, curiosity, and a voice shaped by long years of writing and revisiting the same questions from different angles.