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Varnish and the Ministry of Inconvenience
Paperback
Series: The Inconvenience Office, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Being summoned during a stranger's prostate examination is not how Varnish expected to spend his afternoon.
Varnish is a demon marshal who commands the Ninth Screaming Battalion. Petunia Crumb is a sixteen year old apprentice witch who intended to summon a minor spirit of romantic disappointment. One wounded ego and one misread name later, Varnish is dragged into the mortal world with a lampshade caught on his horn and both hands full of eels.
Unfortunately, the spell isn't finished.
Varnish continues appearing at the worst possible moments, from private medical procedures to society weddings. Every arrival creates another magical disaster, and every disaster attracts the attention of the Ministry of Inconvenience, an institution devoted to making magic safe through rules, forms, compulsory apologies, and the careful removal of personal choice.
To escape the spell, Varnish and Petunia must survive hostile paperwork, unreliable portals, dangerous books, family dinners, and a government machine determined to correct every mistake permanently.
Varnish and the Ministry of Inconvenience is an adult comic fantasy about magical bureaucracy, terrible timing, unlikely friendship, and the dangerous idea that people should be allowed to make their own mistakes.
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