soonThe Witches of Birchwood Lake · Book 1
Back Burner
Her magic trapped the one man trying to leave. The lodge has opinions. The goose has authority. Dinner is almost ready.
Laura Keller used to run one of the best farm-to-table restaurants downstate. Then the marriage collapsed, the restaurant went down with it, and the only job offer left was four hours north at a faded lake lodge nobody had heard of in twenty years.
The plan was simple. Cook competently. Want nothing. Leave before the season turns.
Then the soup made a grown man cry in front of four witnesses. The bread tasted like being loved. The stove started flaring on its own every time Laura felt something she was not ready to feel. And a large, deeply opinionated goose named Pancake followed her in from the parking lot and refused to leave.
Her magic also, very inconveniently, trapped the caretaker.
Cal Hoffman has spent twenty years holding this lodge together for a family that never thanked him. He was finally loading his truck to go. Now the truck will not start, the building will not let him leave, and the chef who did this to him keeps making food that makes him want to stay.
The lodge has opinions. The goose has authority. Dinner is almost ready.
A cozy witch romantic fantasy with midlife magic and comedy · closed door · happy ending
What this book is
- A cozy witch romcom about a burned-out chef whose cooking starts telling the truth
- Grumpy caretaker meets sunshine chef, with forced proximity in a sentient lodge
- A large, deeply opinionated goose named Pancake, appointed kitchen bouncer
- A slow burn that stays on the warm side of the bedroom door, and a complete happily-ever-after
You'll like this if
- You feed everybody and then eat standing over the sink
- You love a grumpy man who fixes everything except his feelings
- You want a small town worth moving to
- You believe it's never too late to turn it up
Reading order
The Witches of Birchwood Lake
One magical year on one small up-north lake. A new witch comes into her power every season, and not one of them is under forty. Every book is one couple, one season, and one complete happily-ever-after.
