A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sera is so happy to have her magic back that she overdoes it a little at first. Clemmie is anxious to return to her human form, and when Sera untangles Clemmie’s curse, the fox turns into a voluptuous white woman in her fifties.

Clemmie moves into Matilda’s old room. Later, Francesca calls to ask Sera to break Albert’s magical contract with the Guild. Francesca says that as far as the Guild is concerned, Sera and Luke are no longer in exile. When Sera asks about Clemmie’s status, Francesca concedes that Sera can have whatever she wants if she agrees to help the Guild break Albert’s magical contract. Sera feels nervous, as though she has forgotten something, but she agrees to try to break the contract so that the Guild can oust Albert.

When she and Clemmie arrive at the Guild, Sera notes the stuffy portraits that depict the organization’s all-white, aristocratic former members. Both Francesca and Verity have tried and failed to break the magical seal on the contract. Sera agrees to try on one condition: She wants social change in the Guild. She accuses them of helping Albert rise to his current position, and she also accuses them of insisting on limiting membership to witches with a certain background, pedigree, and status level.