Paige learns quickly that even in this 'enlightened' day and age, witches are extremely unpopular. Paige's refusal to give up Savannah lands her in hot water immediately, as Leah begins turning the town against her by setting up suspicion that she is a witch. Coping with a moody teenaged witch does not make things any easier. Paige is determined not to let Savannah be taken by the sorcerer's Cabal, but she faces formidable obstacles: supernatural enemies, human fear and prejudice, and her own Coven. This challenge is but the tip of the iceberg-the half-demon is working for a powerful sorcerer who claims to be Savannah's father. Trouble arrives when Leah, a telekinetic half-demon who killed Paige's mother, launches a challenge for custody of Savannah. When we meet Paige, her main concerns are learning to deal with Savannah and heading off the disapproval of her Coven Elders, who do not accept her as the true Coven leader.

Paige, the titular leader of the American Coven, is also the new guardian of Savannah, a powerful thirteen-year-old girl whose recently murdered mother was a black witch. In Dime Store Magic, the focus shifts to Paige, a young witch and web designer living in small-town Massachusetts. The first two, Bitten and Stolen, concentrate on the werewolf Elena (the only female werewolf in the world). This novel is the third in Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. Canadian author Kelley Armstrong's Dime Store Magic rewarded my gamble with an intelligent, funny, and action-packed read. Now and then, however, I decide to take a chance on a novel. Far too many writers perpetuate the 'Burning Times' mythologies of the radical feminist and Wiccan movements, instead of looking up some serious, credible historical research, and it drives me crazy. I am usually very skeptical about witch-related fiction.

Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong