M. A. Hagan

Sometimes the problem isn't chaos; it's trying to fix it. Raisa Hartman has built a life of reliability. As a driver for her Amish community, she's the woman people count on: punctual, competent, and unflappable. But her eleven-year-old granddaughter Kenz is testing every ounce of that control. When Kenz volunteers to help with yard work, her ADHD-fueled enthusiasm threatens Raisa's carefully cultivated perennial beds.
Desperate, Raisa makes a choice she never imagined: she secretly doses Kenz's cookie with a calming potion from her herbalist friend Elizabeth. The potion doesn't calm Kenz. It duplicates her. What starts as two identical girls rapidly becomes four, then eight, as Raisa discovers that sugar doesn't soothe Kenz's energy. It multiplies it into literal, physical form. Now Raisa and Elizabeth must reverse the catastrophe before Kenz's mother finds out, all while managing an exponentially growing army of helpful eleven-year-olds who are enthusiastically "fixing" everything they touch. A warm, thoughtful fantasy about neurodivergence, consent, and learning to love people exactly as they are.