The Babysitters Coven

Esme Pearl is seventeen and runs a babysitters club. She knows it sounds lame, but she likes the work and she is good at it. She also needs the money, because destruction seems to trail her wherever she goes, and she already owes some people a new tree.

Cassandra Heaven arrives wanting in. She looks like an Instagram model, dresses as if her clothes came out of a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak to match. She will do almost anything to join the club, including taking care of a potty-training two-year-old.

Her reason is a note from her mother: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom." Esme and Cassandra turn out to have more in common than either expects.

The two learn that babysitting has a heroic lineage behind it, with superpowers, magic rituals and a duty to protect the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. The jobs still have a deadline, since the parents come home eventually.

This is a comic, action-heavy fantasy about witchy babysitters, pitched somewhere between a teen adventure comedy and a monster-fighting series. It is the first book in a series, and the tone stays light and quick even when the threats turn scary.