How to Maintain your Magic Mountain: Or, Bureaucracy & Basilisks

When you’re lower middle management in a Magic Mountain, the Employee Handbook and managerial structure are nearly as big a menace—and definitely as twisty—as the never-ending chasms within the mountain.

Luckily, Rhonda loves the twisty chasms and never-ending intricacies of both the Mountain and her own Department of Cavern and Subsonic Noise Maintenance. She likes working for the Mountain, and she knows how the rules work there—or at least, how to make the rules work for her. She certainly doesn’t want to leave her position.

Unfortunately for Rhonda, a series of managerial murders put her next in line for the hot seat as Manager of the Mountain itself; and as if that weren’t enough, the nearest Magic Mountain, catching wind of their plight, has begun to make noises about folding both mountains into one Magic Mountain—whether or not Rhonda and her Mountain want to do so.

If the paperwork doesn’t kill Rhonda, the next internal coup might—and that’s reckoning without the basilisks in the lower caverns, the Magic Mountain itself, and the Dark Lord currently haunting her inbox with increasingly pedantic demands to hire out the Mountain to him.

How to Maintain your Magic Mountain is the first book in a cosy/cozy middle-management fantasy quartet for everyone who ever stewed in the ranks while the boss sat pretty and made ridiculous decisions. All complete with magical creatures and artfully concealed murder.