Golem For Broke
A Magical Midlife Urban Fantasy
Mad Queens Inc. Book 1
Bestselling author Deborah Wilde kicks off a new series perfect for fans of magical mysteries, unique mythology, and witty slow-burn romance. It’s a gleeful ode to strong female friendships and smart empowered women over forty.
Surviving your forties requires coffee, good friends, and a morally flexible relationship with illegal magic.
Tovah Silver runs Mad Queens Inc., an unlicensed magical problem-solving agency with her three best friends. They’ve built their reputation on grit, loopholes, and unrepentant competence, ignoring those who think their perimenopausal magic tops out at party tricks.
They’re wrong but correcting them would be a felony. Every one of the Queens has a forbidden second magic buried deep—until an assassin golem forces Tovah to unleash hers.
She thinks she got away with it. Then Nikolai Azarov shows up.
Vancouver’s only golem-maker would call her story creative if he wasn’t too busy calling BS. Worse, once he figures out what she actually did to that golem, he doesn’t turn her in. He names his price.
Now Tovah must honor a dangerous bargain with a man who’s already insufferable without leverage, outmaneuver the magic cops circling her agency, and hunt down whoever left a hand-delivered clay effigy on her bed.
Middle age isn’t a crisis. It’s a weapon.
Published by Te Da Media Inc and available worldwide in e-book, paperback, and audiobook on October 12, 2026.
Purchase links:
Deborah Wilde Books: https://www.deborahwildebooks.com/collections/mad-queens-inc
Other retailers: https://books2read.com/u/3GB9vL
More urban fantasy from Deborah featuring an older heroine
Books Archive – Author Deborah Wilde
“It’s not always easy to navigate a paranormal author’s fictitious world. I’ve given up on many a novel that makes me feel like I’m wandering through a dense jungle without a map. Instead of leaving you to your own devices, Wilde hands you a smartphone, complete with a GPS tracker and hiking app. She orients you in the story and steers you where you need to go to understand the players and the conflict. And she does it in a way that prompts laugh-out-loud moments of pure giddy satisfaction.” – BookTrib
“Her books are marvellous, filled with intricate plots, full of characters with fears and flaws and hangups, and you can’t wait to get to the end, but you don’t want them to finish.” – Yellow Bookworm
“I will buy any and all books written by Deborah Wilde. Guaranteed a good time reading: action-packed adventure, cool culture tidbits, and the humor is so, so fine.” – C. Vasiliu
About Deborah:
Deborah Wilde is a global wanderer and hopeless romantic. After twelve years as a screenwriter, she was also a total cynic with a broken edit button, so, she jumped ship, started writing funny, sexy urban fantasy books and never looked back.
She loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatural butt, banter with hot men, and still make time for their best female friend, because those were the women she grew up around and admired. Granted, her grandmother never had a to kill a demon at her weekly friend lunches, but Deborah is pretty sure she could have.
Smart (ass) heroines. Epic magic. Red-hot romance.
**Pronounced Deb-O-rah.
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