The Godmother

For everyone who's ever wished for a fairy godmother, acclaimed author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has spun a magical tale that's the next best thing. Like her award-winning novel, Healer's War, which drew on her experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, The Godmother bridges the gap between high fantasy and grim reality. An adult Mary Poppins for the nineties, with a sly touch of whimsy and more than a spoonful of grit, The Godmother delivers what Scarborough fans have come to expect: the unexpected.
Rose Samson, a frustrated Seattle social worker, dons a crystal pendant from her friend Linden's vintage clothing shop and makes a wish - for a fairy godmother for "the whole damned city." Enter Felicity Fortune, a silver-haired, funkily dressed fill-in for the suddenly absent Linden, and a card-carrying member of "Godmothers (Anonymous): Fair Fates Facilitated, Questers Accommodated, and Virtue Vindicated. True Love and Serendipity Our Specialty."
Felicity's magic net falls far and wide over Seattle, reining in a cast of characters that make up a modern-day volume of the Brothers Grimm. There's Sno, the runaway teenage daughter of a rock superstar, whose aging supermodel stepmom has plans for her "fairest of them all" stepdaughter; seven-year-old Hank and his little sister, Gigi, dumped in a shopping mall by their drug-addict mother; Cindy Ellis, a stable keeper with two abusive stepsisters...and more.