4/5: This review is for an ARC copy received from the publisher through NetGalley. Two middle-aged women, one, a former hunter for the goddess Artemis, one, a half-succubus former private eye, and a 9...

Transparency note: I was allowed to read this as an e-arc by DAW via Netgalley. A very entertaining cozy-ish urban fantasy spin on your typical chosen-one(s)-saving-the-world storyline, "Slayers of Old" has a heroic trio of "formers" who are suddenly forced to return to lives they thought they'd long left behind to save the world from eldritch horrors once more: Temple Finn who feels his formerly formidable powers as well as his life fading these days, Jenny Winter, formerly a Hunter of Artemis, who now tries to atone for her violent past through healing those she'd once have hunted, and Annette Thorne whose main goal these days is to reconnect with her son and grandchildren after retiring as a supernatural PI with more than a dash of succubus blood.

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Three former Chosen Ones have joined together to spend their retirement in peace and quiet, running Second Life Books and Gifts in Salem, Massachusetts: a calm, tourist-filled oasis where they never have to worry about stopping the apocalypse-of-the-week.