Battle for Oz: Volume One - Witch Wars

by Michael McBride

In this adult-oriented retelling, Dorothy‘s first act, murder, incites riots, and causes a huge power dynamic shift in Oz. When a Congress, the Footmen of Fate, are installed, the compass-oriented witches (North, South, East, and West) who are the governors of their associated Cardinal-Point Direction States become wrapped into an all out conflict amidst a Talking Animal Civil War. There are new and old characters alike, but The Wizard, ousted as a charlatan and wielding music like a weapon, sets up the Witch of the East in a wicked scheme as a murderess too; but after a house falls, she’s resurrected…and on a mission!
Panic begins anew as the evil Death Witch Mombi, who has the power over reanimating the dead, creates her Army of the Damned from of all the buried in Oz, Glinda slides into a character struggle with humility, the Scarecrow has to sort through the rubble The Wizard has left of all Music, with Scare’s new Musician’s Apprentics Guild, and Lion wants to rescue Dorothy from exile to establish a new theater experience “The Yellow Brick Way,” akin to our Broadway… and there’s no place like home, especially when our home and theirs collide…right in Times Square itself!

435 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 23, 2022

About the author

Michael McBride was born in Colorado and still resides in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. He hates the snow, but loves the Avalanche. He works with medical radiation, yet somehow managed to produce five children, none of whom, miraculously, have tails, third eyes, or other random mutations. He writes fiction that runs the gamut from thriller to horror to science fiction...and loves every minute of it.