THE THINKING WOMAN'S GUIDE TO REAL MAGIC / Emily Croy Barker / 563 Pages - First in a Series

Nora is having a rather bad week. She can't seem to finish her English literature dissertation and has learned that her boyfriend is marrying another woman. To take her mind off these troubles, she agrees to go to a wedding with a friend for the weekend.

She had a great time at the rehearsal dinner on Friday evening but gets lost the next morning while taking a walk to clear her head.Nora wanders into another world where magic works and women are considered ornaments or treated only as second-hand citizens.

What is a highly literate, independent, 21st Century woman to do when forced to work for a chauvinistic, but very powerful magician? And how will she ever get back home?