The Itsy Bitsy Jorogumo
(2026)(Book 11 in the Hex Files with Felix Thatch series)
A novel by Sarina Dorie
He’s snarky. He’s brilliant and knows it. He’s a wizard-magician disguised in human clothing.
When there are monsters to fight and paranormal mysteries to unravel, Felix Thatch is the Witchkin to call.
Felix Thatch, recruiting agent for Womby’s School for Wayward Witches, trusts no one. He hides his forbidden affinity for pain magic so that Fae overlords do not discover what he is and execute him—or worse yet, enslave him and use him as a weapon like the Raven Court once did. When he meets Asuko Bushi, headmistress of Jorogumo Academy for Girls, he realizes he as found an ally, someone like him with a forbidden affinity.
He may have also found a potential girlfriend.
Never mind that Asuko Bushi is a jorogumo spider woman, and she’s at least a hundred years older than he is. Felix would like nothing more than to spend a leisurely weekend practicing beautiful magic together, breaking curses, and indulging in kinky spider bondage. Unfortunately, fate has other plans for him.
A student at Jorogumo Academy for Girls has gone missing while on a fieldtrip. Felix accompanies Asuko to New Meiji Island, a magical realm of shapeshifters and Japanese yokai monsters. Normally Felix excels at finding missing students. Unfortunately his magical reserves are depleted, and he is having difficulty restoring them, he is unfamiliar with the language, culture, and customs of this part of the Unseen Realm, and he can trust no one—even his girlfriend, who has secrets she has not yet shared.
Will Felix be able to find this teenager—and avoid being eaten by yokai in the process?
This is a spin-off series of Womby’s School for Wayward Witches,The Trouble with Hedge Witches, Son of a Succubus, and The Vega Bloodmire Wicked Witch Mystery Series.
Genre: Cozy Mystery