Splendid City

Liberty is a state where water is rationed at steep prices and speaking your mind can cost you dearly. Texas has just declared itself an independent country. Surveillance is everywhere, and people are always watching and passing judgment, so suspicion comes easily. The world is frightening, yet it feels oddly familiar.

The story follows Eleanor, a young woman who is eagerly discovering her magical abilities with the help of her coven. She soon learns that being a white witch is far harder than the books suggest. She has also been placed under 'house arrest' with Stan, a lecherous former coworker who once wronged her and now lives as a cat. He is a talking cat with a taste for craft beer, protest lines, and conning people and 'shooting' them.

Eleanor has no patience for Stan's schemes. She is busy helping another coven search for a missing witch, whom she suspects is secretly connected to the water shortage in Liberty.