"enchanting story that knows how to heat the pages"

Though she provides SMALL MAGICK through logical deductions, Drey envies the mage abilities of her family. Everyone but her can perform tremendous feats. Her solace lies with her pipes; Mousie the mousebane tabby and the great outdoors. Following Mousie and aided by the wind revealing a path she has never seen before, Drey climbs a mountain.

Drey feels different inside the circle on a hillside. Elated with the belief she can perform magic here, she toots her pipes and casts a spell that binds a wind sprit in mortal dress to her. Cyrus expects that she summoned him to give her sexual pleasure and provides such as only a wind spirit could. However, when it is time for him to return to his normal form, she cannot because she does not know how to release him or even how she captured him. As Drey falls in love with her spirit, she decides to sell herself in bondage to a mage who can liberate her beloved Cyrus.

The second tale in Liddy Midnight's Dark Ages Erotic Fantasy series, SMALL MAGICK, is an enchanting story that casts a spell on the audience. The story line bewitches the reader into believing that sexy spirits can be summoned. Drey is an ambrosial darling who tries to do the right thing even at personal sacrifice. Cyrus may be a wind spirit, but he sure knows how to heat the pages of a novel. Fans into something delectably different will want to read this novel and its predecessor FIRE AND ICE because the works of the majestic Ms. Midnight magically moves readers into a mystical realm.

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Courtesy ParaNormal Romance
Posted December 2, 2002

Summary

Drey is descended from a long line of female mages, but she herself only commands SMALL MAGICK. Her aunt and grandmother have sent her off by herself to unlock the power they know lies within her. Frustrated with her inability to perform even the basics of magick, Drey finds solace outdoors, playing her pipes while the breeze tangles her hair and tugs at her skirt. She explores the mountain that looms above her cottage and finds an isolated meadow that long ago served a mage as a natural circle. With joy at her discovery surging through her, she casts the circle and raises power for the first time in her life. She also conjures a wind spirit and binds him to mortal form.

Cyrus believes she has called him to pleasure her and applies himself diligently to the task. Their mutual delight dissipates when they realize she has no idea how she called and bound him. Only the mage who bound him can release him. How can she reverse what she did unwittingly? While she works to devise a ritual that will return him to his world, Drey helps Cyrus explore the physical world while he shows her glimpses of his realm. To her dismay, she finds herself falling in love with him. That revelation makes her desperate to send him back to the skies. Desperate enough to apprentice herself to a powerful mage with an agenda of his own. Desperate enough to promise him anything in exchange for the knowledge she needs to free Cyrus.