Gloss

Fifteen-year-old Emi thinks her magic is a dud. Her friend Munira can control water; Heather casts spells! But Emi’s just an empath, the perfect innocent bystander in her friends’ crazy weather videos. When Yulia, a shapeshifter from Ukraine, arrives in Minnesota and joins the local magic club, the friends know her power is something special. Their first cute video of a shapeshifted Bigfoot with her poodle at the dog park goes viral and attracts all the wrong attention.

The friend group unravels as something or someone targets them, twisting their magic. Yulia fears a Russian operative is interfering, sniffing at secrets she’s keeping for friends still in Ukraine. Munira insists it’s a mage, some rando who’s just jealous of their success as they start to monetize their viral videos. Heather worries that the combination of their powers is poisoning them from the inside out.

Their feelings yank on Emi’s windpipe, real as a hand on her throat, but they can’t all be right. She must disentangle truth from fantasy to figure out the real curse before her friends turn their hearts and their magic against each other.