You’ve just got to read this book! H. M. Sanders simply makes her prose sing! The Widowed Warlock is fantastic. This is her intro to a magical world:

Max is perfectly happy. A health inspector by day, a warlock on the weekends. But then, his wife dies, after Max enlists a team of magical specialists that should have prevented her demise. His dreams turn into nightmares, his wife’s soul trapped. And Max, out of touch with his own magical world, finds help in the unlikeliest of places…a New Witch with remarkable powers, hidden for 50 years, who comes with a mystery all her own. They join forces to uncover not only his wife’s untimely death but also the New Witch’s secret and terrifying past.