E J says…
Morgan is human. The whole way through the story. No emergence of an unknown magic. But she can handle many types of magical creatures and win their affection and loyalty.
Her relationship with magicals starts when she walks in on a werewolf shifting and threatening a pudgy vampire. The werewolf is the guy’s handler, and he is insisting the vampire drink his tomato juice – which results in less of a yearning for fresh blood.
The werewolf insists Morgan must get her memory wiped. They have to wait a few days at the center for someone who is skilled in this to arrive. So, the head of that area has her go and teach some of the magicals how to interact with humans, especially a small unicorn who wants to be a therapy animal.
And while she is there, she should brush the selkie, who is in horse form. She makes great strides with the unicorn, and when she turns to do the brushing, there are two horses. One nickers at her and is quite affectionate. Over the space of several days, she brushes and hugs this horse. Kisses it too.
Turns out he is not the selkie. Instead, he is the Pooka, a powerful magical being. And quite a looker, too.
After Morgan loses her memories, the magicals she helped are so sad she is gone. So is the Pooka. He pulls rank and works out a way for her to regain her memories. Then, to protect her, she is a human after all and quite vulnerable, he takes off and pretends not to care for her so that no one attacks her to get at him.
This sounds like a romance story, but really it’s so low key. Only a few kisses show up on the page. Pretty clean. She stays busy with schoolwork and her job at the Center, which has her ending up in a number of seriously funny, strange, or complicated situations. Not to give any of this away, but I particularly laughed at the King of the Goblins’ situation.
It goes from two long books to a few short stories that fill in the rest of the story. The ending is satisfying and cute. In the series, Morgan goes from a high school student to a woman nearing thirty.
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