Being raised a Hollywood brat is one thing. Discovering you’re a witch is something totally different.

Yesterday, Shenandoah Mountains (Shena) Montgomery, daughter of Hollywood A-lister, Twyla Montgomery, was simply mooching around her mother’s mansion and hanging out with her adoptive sister, Blue Ridge Mountains (Blue). Then, she spots a centaur in the veggie garden, a siren in the pool, and a yeti playing with a coyote.

Suddenly, she and Blue are off to a magical school in Scotland, where they’re supposed to discover their own witchcraft or something. Once there, Shena has any number of surprises, including meeting her blood family and finding out that she was switched off soon after birth for an elven changeling, who’s also at the school.

She also meets a boy with the insane name of Xithromorganatic (or Morgan), who’s apparently the son of Apollo and is seriously sparkly. Given that he was raised among the gods, he doesn’t seem to be happy unless someone is trying to kill him.

But she’s not the only one having an odd time. Yesterday, Ines D’ambrisio was working to track down serial killers with her friends in the Outer Banks Irregulars.

Granted, as the werewolf reincarnation of Joan of Arc and with a (literally) angelic boyfriend, Noah, she’s pretty used to weird, but now she’s going to face a true terror . .

. Teaching!As if these twists weren’t enough to throw them, Shena soon finds herself in with the Wombats, the school’s Undecided class, which is filled with a variety of misfits, including a teacher who keeps apparating small blue bunnies.

More disturbingly, Ines and Noah discover the bodies of two teachers who disappeared last year, just as Shena, Blue, and Morgan are attacked (at least that makes Morgan happy). Now, they know there’s a killer at The Academy--and they’re going to have to discover who it is, before they’re all his next victims.

Witches, Werewolves & Wombats is a perfect introduction to the More in Heaven and Earth universe. Continuing readers will delight in visits from dozens of old friends, while new readers can easily enjoy the loads of quirky humor, romance, and suspense of this unusual contemporary fantasy with plenty of mythological twists.

On a Katherine Gilbert wackiness scale of 1-to-10 sarcastic talking cats*, this one is a 7. *Warning: Not all stories contain talking cats.

Wackiness may take other forms. The More in Heaven and Earth series is all set in the same magical universe filled with angels, witches, werewolves, demons, vampires, ghosts, and many other supernatural creatures.

These intriguing tales can be read in any order or as stand-alones and will introduce the reader to a variety of fascinating characters throughout the many unique locales of this exciting world. .