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The Lost Girl
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 14 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the weird little nexus of Homer's Haven and Silver Falls, demons, robo-wrestling droids, and cursed grocery aisles exist right alongside overtime shifts, deadbeat exes, and karaoke nights that go on too long. Dondorale Raven juggles magic hangovers, stalker ex-boyfriends, and stockroom drama at the Mighty Mammoth while trying not to get killed by either monsters or her social life. Her circle is a tangle of beautifully messy people: Veronica, who weaponizes dating apps and gossip; Trixie, a chaos magnet whose love life now includes an over-opinionated octogenarian named Old Man Lester; Marial, a tired but iron-willed mom searching for her missing daughter; and Izzy, that daughter, reinventing herself as a cashier in Silver Falls, where even the Grocery Garden hides cracks in reality.
As Queen Imperia's shadow creeps back into the world and Dr. Injustice keeps hurling his ridiculous Robo Wrestlers at the town, these characters are just as busy dealing with rent, trauma, romance, addiction, and family guilt as they are fighting nightmares. The story lives in the overlap between fantasy and paycheck-to-paycheck reality: cigarette breaks between battles, phone calls that change everything, group chats full of memes and emotional landmines, and a small town where everyone knows your business and your monster count. It's about found family, bad decisions, almost-healed wounds, and the stubborn, funny, angry way people keep showing up for each other-even when the apocalypse has to wait until after their shift.
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