Everett de Schael has been promoted.

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Unfortunately, the promotion involves sneaking up on strangers and smacking them in the forehead on behalf of Magic.

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While Magic enjoys an extended personal vacation, Everett has been appointed her temporary stand-in, responsible for delivering new spell Inspirations to unsuspecting magickers across the world. The work is dangerous, exhausting, humiliating, and occasionally hazardous to nearby furniture.

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Luckily, Everett has help from his young daughter Rose, who keeps the records, tracks the deadlines, and remains disturbingly calm when everything goes wrong.

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Then Everett meets Mabel Rosewater.

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Mabel is supposed to receive a spell that turns parsnips into pansies. Mabel does not want a spell that turns parsnips into pansies. What Mabel wants is a man. More precisely, she wants her One True Love, as promised by the sacred agrarian wisdom of Mother Sow.

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Everett, being a sensible husband, father, Grand Master Wizard, and unwilling public servant of cosmic nonsense, immediately recognizes that this is not his problem.

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Naturally, it becomes his problem.

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Soon Everett, Rose, Mabel, and an increasingly inconvenient collection of new companions are chasing love, delivering spells, dodging practical engineers, following suspicious clues, managing a probably-cat with violent opinions, and trying to keep up with a magical workload that seems to be getting stranger by the day.

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Somewhere behind the chaos, Evil is stirring.

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And this time, Evil may have a plan.

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Not This Side of Never; is a self-contained comic fantasy adventure in the Inconvenient Magic series — a tale of reluctant heroism, magical bureaucracy, dangerous errands, useless spells, unexpected allies, and one very tired wizard trying to save the day without missing the birth of his next child.

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Not This Side of Never;

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