Title
A Paranormal Therapist’s Guide to Divorce and Falling in Love Again
Author
Sylvia Steere
Publication Date
Jun 05 2026
Rating
4 / 5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Description
When Maxine is stood up at the courthouse to sign her divorce papers, she doesn’t realize the man she meets there will be the only one who can protect her from what’s to come. Her work as a relationship therapist for inter-species couples will make her the accidental guardian of a draconic egg, and trying to save its innocent shell will embroil her in a secret anti-human society’s conspiracy.
Maxine only wants to help. That vampire/human couple that got their romantic beginning through stalking and codependency? That werewolf/human couple who can’t figure out how to make things work in the bedroom? Maxine is there to coach healthy communication based on mutual respect. It’s never over-easy; relationships take work.
But desperate to prove her worth after being divorced by a celestial, Maxine will happily paint targets on her own back if it will protect the egg. Scrambling to save her from herself, will her reluctant bodyguard convince Maxine that her own life is valuable? Will the anti-human cabal succeed in their sinister plans?
A Paranormal Therapist’s Guide to Divorce is a laugh-out-loud urban fantasy adventure with action, romance, and a lot of egg puns.
Awards
N/A Pending Release
Review
A chaotic, irrational, paranoid, and enjoyable twist on paranormal life stories. I was unsure going into the reading of this book. The description pulled me, but I had been burned by similar enticing descriptions before. Maxine—and the man she meets—the dark humor, the supernatural beings in counseling settings, and a mystery that kept me on my toes, won me over in the end.
Maxine is relatable in a way that you will either connect with her instantly, or you will feel the exhaustion she carries daily. Dragging herself begrudgingly through life after her divorce to a celestial while trying to save other people’s marriages at work would be enough to break anyone. Her commentary during the counseling sessions is some of my favorite writing throughout the book.
Despite the many outlandish characters or situations, nothing in this book felt like a caricature. Even the eccentric professor felt so multidimensional that the humorous descriptions felt like people I knew more than some character in a book. The puns, her new friend’s observations, and the witty banter, took this book from great to amazing for me.
It can be a bit tough if you are going through some difficult things in your own life. Maxine’s clinical descriptions of herself and her clients strip bare the difficulty of coping with, and after, relationships. Regardless of your own relationship status, this book is the perfect mixture of paranormal creatures, romance, humor, and mystery.
I promise it will exceed all "eggspectations."
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