A Cascade of Magic

In this fourth installment of the “Haunted Law Firm” saga, the reader, through a half dozen short stories, meets the founders of the Haunted Law Firm, learn about their backgrounds, and find out what happened prior to Mitch McCaffrey coming on the scene a few years ago. Not every story involves the paranormal, but every one of them provides insight into the lives of the lawyers at the firm, and some (“Reunion,” “Valley of the Shadow,” “My Assistant is a Vampire,” and “The Bigfoot”) provide clues to why the attorneys at the firm could so readily accept spell casters as clients.
This volume concludes with a new novella, “Breach of Promise,” in which readers of the series will find characters both old and new. In it, Rob Ashworth is engaged to represent a young witch who wants to sue her former fiancé for jilting her on the eve of their wedding, but learns the client is not as pure as she initially presented. He is assisted by Aleksandra Tartarkiewicz, herself a witch of some talent who is a Polish intelligence agent hiding out from Russian spell casters under an assumed name and a false passport. The story is complicated, as usual, by the intervention of Monica Gilbert, who wants to use both Rob’s client and Aleksandra for her own purposes. The resolution will involve both lawyering and spell casting.