About the Book: Small town life in the Wisconsin Northwoords is not like anything Mary expected.

When Mary Matherson moved into her late grandfather’s house in small town northern Wisconsin, she was prepared to deal with the prying locals while digging for clues about her grandfather’s curious death. What she was not prepared for was the veil between the supernatural plane practically in her backyard.

It turns out, Mary is a witch. Her new boyfriend is a demon. The Other world is hard to resist and Mary wants to learn the magic her grandfather kept secret from her. Instead of nosy neighbors and coffee shop gossip, Mary must deal with supernatural politics and a threat that has hunted her family’s magic for generations.

Elise Posledni is a bookkeeper by day and a writer by early mornings. A lifelong Wisconsin resident, she draws on her love of the state’s small towns and breathtaking natural landscapes to create fiction that feels rooted and real, even when the magic starts to surface. Her short stories have been featured in Creative Wisconsin Magazine and the anthology A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror. A New Witch in the Northwoods is her debut novel.

Madison's own Peggy Joque Williams is an award-winning author who writes historical fiction inspired by her love of genealogy and her deep historical research into her European, French-Canadian, and Ojibwe ancestors. Her books, Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles and Braving the Dawn: A Novel of New France were written as an homage to her French-Canadian 7th and 8th great-grandmothers. Peggy has also co-written two contemporary mysteries: On the Road to Death's Door and On the Road to Where the Bells Toll. Her newest work, Death Doth Protest Too Much, a historical mystery set in a 17th century Parisian apothecary, will be released in March 2027. You can read more about Peggy at www.peggywilliamsauthor.com.

Elise Posledni in Conversation with Peggy Joque Williams