A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn`t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can`t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt`s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona`s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona`s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona`s worries...