Coming soonThe Witches of Birchwood Lake · Book 4
Out of the Woods
The forest ranger everyone counts on has decided she is part of the scenery. The birches disagree, and so does the groundskeeper who has loved her for years.
Julie Bauer is the forest ranger the whole town counts on. She knows every trail on the ridge and every tree in the old birch grove on the lodge's land. She is steady and reliable, and she has decided that is all she will ever be, the kind of woman things happen near and never to.
She is also a witch, though she calls it a knack. The woods answer to what she feels. For years she has kept them quiet and rooted, every path exactly where she left it, the same way she has kept her friendship with Tom Lindgren.
Tom is the lodge groundskeeper, shy and kind and good with anything that grows. He has been quietly in love with Julie for years. Neither of them has ever said a word.
Then a developer's surveyor turns up in the grove with a clipboard, and overnight the birches start leaning the wrong way. Saving the woods means working side by side with Tom, and the forest has started bending every trail straight toward him.
Birch, her red fox, has opinions about all of it. Mostly he thinks she is being ridiculous.
A cozy witch romantic fantasy with midlife magic and comedy · closed door · happy ending
What this book is
- Friends to lovers between two people who have orbited each other for years
- A forest that leans toward everything she won't say out loud
- Birch, a red fox who keeps her counsel and disapproves of her choices
- Peak fall color, cider and woodsmoke, closed-door heat, and a complete happily-ever-after
You'll like this if
- You're the reliable one, and you've started to suspect that isn't the same as being chosen
- You love a shy man who has been in the room the whole time
- October is your favorite month and you'd like it to last a whole book
- You'd trust a fox's opinion over most people's
Reading order
The Witches of Birchwood Lake
Quieter magic, bigger feelings. One up-north lake, one grand old lodge with opinions, and one magical year told a season at a time. This is the series to sink into: found family, second chances, and magic woven through ordinary days. Every book is one couple, one season, and a complete happily-ever-after.
