All Rhys Llywelyn wants is to pay the rent on his damp flat, keep his bike running, drink hot tea, and survive the Welsh rain. He didn't agree to act as a battery for a ghost.

When his toaster makes breakfast on its own and the hallway lights tap out messages, Rhys realises his crumbling Victorian building has gained a tenant he never asked for.

Delyth Pugh died in an electrical fire fifty years ago. She was a 1970s activist, loud, bored, and still furious about unfinished business. Now the local power grid is her personal playground. She isn't just haunting the flat. She's haunting the copper wiring, and Rhys is the only thing keeping her tied to the world.

But Delyth isn't supposed to exist.

When the otherworldly Morrigan Department notices the clerical error, they send a spectral hound and a tiny wren with a jobsworth attitude to deal with it. Rhys has to choose between following the rules and protecting the ghost who depends on him. If he gets it wrong, the town loses its power, Delyth loses everything, and Rhys may end up signing for far more than a delivery.

And he still has flower rounds to finish.

A cosy fantasy set in modern Wales, where magic leaks into ordinary life, ghosts cause electrical faults, and compassion is much harder to file than a comp

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