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The book stars Jessie Shimmer, who starts out as an apprentice wizard in Columbus, Ohio. She's being taught the fundamentals of magic by her lover, Cooper Marron, but after a simple weather-control spell goes seriously awry, Cooper gets stranded in a hellish dimension, a giant monster is unleashed on the city, and Jessie suffers severe injury, losing an arm and an eye. She survives, thanks to her new familiar, a ferret named Palimpsest (or Pal, for short), but the local mage council, corrupt to the core, brands her an outlaw, bars her from trying to rescue Cooper, and puts every possible roadblock in her path.

The third book in the series, ''Switchblade Goddess'', finds Jessie at [[How We Got Here]], where she must face off against the soul harvester, save Pal from an illness that's killing him, and do this pretty much unassisted because Cooper and his brother, The Warlock, have to return to Ohio for a family emergency, and her [[Long-Lost Relative]] is busy helping with cleanup from Cuchillo's having been under siege by said goddess.

 

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Jessie, as a result of magic done to her by Miko.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Inazami tried to do this to Miko, binding her in magic chains and dropping her to the bottom of the ocean.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Blue, through his trauma at his father and stepfather's hands.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Pal.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: One of the demons in Cooper's hell infects Jessie, leaving her prone to occasional spells of going crazy and trying to kill everyone.

** And then Miko does it to her in the third book.

* [[Masquerade]]: Officially, magic doesn't exist, and everyone tries to keep it secret.

* [[Menstrual Menace]]: When the Shadow was attached to Charlene, it was strongest during her periods.

* [[Opera Gloves]]: Jessie wears an enchanted one over her replacement hellfire arm.

* [[Orphanage of Love]]: Mother Karen's place.

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Miko makes hers by stealing people's souls.

* [[Parental Issues]]: Loads and loads.

* [[Put Off Their Food]]: Happens to Jessie and Cooper in ''Shotgun Sorceress'' when they discover that, as a side-effect of some necromantic magic they performed, they can feel the death of each item of food they taste. They regretfully pass up the rib-eye steak in favor of a salad.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Miko holds one over Jessie's head throughout the entire third book, {{spoiler|which turns out to have been a trick}}.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Charlie says, "[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.]]" when she first gives Jessie a Devil Kitten.

* [[Super Senses]]: What Jessie gets with her magical eye.

* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The governing magic circles are all about this.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

* [[Weasel Mascot]]: Pal, at least initially.

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