PreorderHot Flashes & Hexes · Christmas novella
Something Borrowed, Something Brewed
Patti has poured coffee for thirty years and never once let anyone bring her a cup. Then her magic wakes up. A Christmas novella.
Patti Rooney has poured coffee at the Fairhaven Diner for thirty years and never once let anyone bring her a cup.
Three weeks before the Christmas Eve wedding of the season, her magic wakes up—and it will not take no for an answer. The coffee pot pours for her. The best booth reserves itself. The pie case has started making pointed suggestions.
And the piano player she sent away in 1999 just walked back into her diner, folded his coat on the third stool, and ordered decaf.
Patti is catering the wedding. Nobody asked, because nobody needed to. What nobody counted on—least of all Patti—is a season where the whole town, the whole coven, and the diner itself conspire to teach the woman who feeds everyone the one skill she never learned: being fed.
A complete, closed-door Christmas novella set in Fairhaven, with the whole coven in attendance, one very opinionated cat, and a happily-ever-after twenty-seven years in the making. Lovely anytime; best with the series behind you.
A cozy witch romantic fantasy with midlife magic and comedy · closed door · happy ending
What this book is
- A full Christmas novella in the Hot Flashes & Hexes world—the coven at a wedding
- Patti's story: the woman who feeds everyone learns to be fed
- A second-chance romance twenty-seven years in the brewing
- Complete, closed-door, and cliffhanger-free, like the rest of Fairhaven
You'll like this if
- You want the whole coven back at one long table
- Christmas weddings, diner coffee, and snow that squeaks are your love language
- You've ever fed everyone and gone home to an empty plate
- You believe some things should be delivered by goose, or at least by magic
Five-star reviews of the series opener
Whispers from the readers
★★★★★
Hot flashes weren't funny until now.
“This is a wonderfully entertaining closed door romantic comedy with a newly minted witch, an opinionated cat, a talking toaster who only speaks French, a house that develops its own personality, and a hard won happily ever after. I laughed until my sides hurt.”
★★★★★
Cassie is such a realistic heroine!
“We need more fantasy romance about middle aged women! I'm sick of teenage heroines. Love the forced proximity and the development of Cassie and Liam's chemistry. Liam is a gem!”
★★★★★
Read the whole series
“This gem of a series gets better as it goes. Each is short and well worth the time. Romance off the pages, clean, and light-hearted but with a profound message.”
4.3 stars across 849 reviews for Book 1