Nice Girls Finish Hexed

Ellie Whitfield has been the nicest woman in Fairhaven for thirty years. She runs the historical society, volunteers for everything, and has never once said no to anything. She left her husband quietly after twenty-three years, and he was genuinely shocked because she'd never mentioned being unhappy.

Now her hot flashes have activated revelation magic that makes hidden things visible. When her temperature spikes, the world around her starts giving up its secrets. Painted-over water damage glows through fresh walls. Buried objects push to the surface. Old documents fill in their own redacted sections. And the truths she's been suppressing for three decades start falling out of her mouth.

The quiet, private man renovating the old hardware store? The one who deflects personal questions like a professional and listens to the whole sentence before responding? Her magic wants to strip every one of his polite non-answers away.

Ellie doesn't need a man with secrets. She needs everyone to stop asking her for favors and possibly a muzzle.

Too bad the magic has opinions. And so does her dog.