Witchful Shrinking

By JB Lassalle and Jen Lassalle

Book Overview

Sometimes all you need to find your voice is the right kind of magic. Even if it's the worst possible time.

Forty-eight-year-old Simone Bardot's life is a junk drawer of a mess. Her husband is having an affair. Her son barely talks to her. And her therapy clinic is failing.

But a mysterious inheritance is about to change everything. As long as she's willing to return to the hometown she's avoided for thirty years to claim it.

Once there, Simone discovers she's inherited more than a building. Inside this sentient house she now calls home is a thriving wellness center that caters to a very exclusive clientele: the supernatural. She's a dormant witch, there's a makeover-obsessed talking cat who wanders the grounds, and her high school heartbreaker is the head of security.

Succeeding in this strange new world means finding her voice even though she's feeling small, which doesn't exactly make her the best therapist. And when the other division heads challenge her ability to run a business she didn't know existed, she'll have to dig deep to heal from the wounds that sent her packing in the first place.

Can a middle-aged woman rediscover her sense of self in the world she left behind?

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H42HTKPN
• ISBN13: 9798212782838
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Tantor
• Length: 1 Pages

Customer Reviews

Loved it. A book about over 40 that is still figuring things out.

Just finished and I really want the next book now. I really enjoyed how even though this was a common book trope it felt different. As someone older , I tire of books being about teenagers and twenty year olds and their life issues. I’m not at that stage in my life.. I want the storied about someone in their 40’s, 50’s, heck even 60’s. I’m not dead yet. I still am having my adventure and want to read about that. Our FMC is flawed, exceptionally. She’s not all put together. She is still finding her way and who she is. As we all do on a daily basis, even if we are over 30. I enjoyed the inner mental dialogue as I do that myself far too much most likely. I enjoyed that this was about her journey for herself. Not a journey to find a man to fix things for her. While romance is fun to read, it’s not all I want to read, this was a nice change from the “butterfly and rainbows” of some types. I could see myself in the questions of being worthy of what is her new life and even aspects of her old one. Then add the fact she suddenly can make things she says off the cuff to actually happen. I mean who hasn’t absently wished that someone you disliked step on a Lego barefoot when walking around the house in the middle of the night… multiple times… forever… ? To find out in your 40’s you can make that happen? Then to realize you are missing memories of part of your life? Would be a lot to deal with and handle. Then add a sentient house and a talking mystical cat? And that’s just the beginning… it will take a beat or two, or three to get one’s bearings I an eager to see where this story goes with future books. There ate many openings for where this story can go. It’s not feeling as cookie cutter as some do at the end of a first book in a series. This feels more like a fluid outline and I like that. I want to find those surprises and see what happens not only to this main character.. but what the future holds for many of our secondary characters and hope to learn more about them in the future books. It’s been far too long since I looked forward to a series read after a first book. Genuinely wanting more. As far as the narration goes, I liked the narrator. To be honest though.. they do need to improve on the differences on individual characters voices if they will give them different voices as some where highly similar., but that is being nitpicky. Really liked the emotion she put into her reading of the FMC. Made her feel more real. Arc read