A fun urban fantasy novel with an intriguing concept. The narrator, mid-50 year-old Mira, is not the usual protagonist for a fantasy novel, but that fact alone makes her story intriguing. Starting from her childhood, Mira talks about her seemingly ordinary life, albeit with a few mysterious twists. The entire plot of the story moves fairly slowly until the last fifty or so pages, but I believe it is all the better for the story. By the time everything is explained with the main mystery of the disappearance of Mira's mother over forty years ago, I was so invested with the characters that I was sad to see it end. However, at times I wished more of the main mystery was actually answered before the end of the book, but I was quite impressed with what Jane Lindskold did here.