Greenteeth

Jenny Greenteeth has lived alone in her lake outside the village of Chipping Appleby for longer than anyone remembers, green-skinned and sharp-toothed, mostly left in peace. That ends the night she drags a drowning woman out of the water.

The woman is Temperance Crump, thrown into the lake by villagers whipped into witch fever by the parish's new parson, torn from her husband and children on his word alone. Jenny agrees to help her cast a spell of forgetting. The parson, it turns out, is the Erl King, an old power moving against every fae and mortal thing left in Britain.

A hobgoblin named Brackus tags along, and the three travel a Britain whose old magic is running out, gathering what remains of it to make a stand. The book leans on Welsh folklore and the darker corners of Arthurian legend. But for all its monsters and threatened kingdoms, it cares more about the bond growing between a monster, a witch and a goblin than about spectacle.

It is Molly O'Neill's first novel.