After an epically shitty day, Jewell Jamieson decides to throw herself a pity party for two – Herself and her standard poodle, Oberon. Unknowingly she eats a meal spiked with magic and then makes a sloppy drunken wish. When Jewell awakes the next morning, she discovers her beloved dog Oberon is gone and, in his place, (in her bed) is a beautiful naked man. Things get complicated when Titania, the impulsive Queen of the Faeries, decides she wants Oberon for herself. Is Oberon simply a man who used to be a dog, or is he somehow something more? When Jewell discovers the answer, she will be faced with a devastating choice. Will she choose to save the man she’s grown to love by giving him up, or will she honor his wishes and watch him die? 

Set in contemporary Philadelphia, More Strange Than True can be best described as a mash-up of literary fiction and grounded fantasy in the vein of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic or Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus – and there’s lots of Shakespeare. The novel takes some of its characters (and its title) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other characters are pulled from Greek Mythology and Goethe’s poem “The Elf King.”