Spellwork & Second Chances

De: Cora Travis

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A magical bookshop. A grumpy bear-shifter guardian. A second chance twenty years in the making.

Julie Bishop came back to Crimson Hollow for one reason: settle her late aunt’s estate, inventory the bookshop, and sell it before anyone could talk her into staying. Simple. Sensible. Completely doomed.

The Whispering Page has other ideas. The moment Julie steps through the door, the books take flight, the hearth lights itself, tea appears in a cup she didn’t pour, and a sharp-tongued magpie named Jinx informs her that her long-buried Bishop magic has finally woken up. Apparently, Crimson Hollow isn’t just the strange little autumn town Julie once ran from. It’s a sanctuary for witches, shifters, household spirits, and all the uncommon folk the outside world was never meant to find. And the wards protecting it are failing.

Cade Halston knows exactly what Julie’s return means. As Crimson Hollow’s guardian, he can feel the town’s magic thinning at the edges. As the man who loved her twenty years ago, he can also feel every old heartbreak stirring back to life the second she opens the bookshop door. He’s older now. Grumpier. Broader in the shoulders. Still annoyingly steady. Also, as Julie is horrified to discover, part bear.

Julie has no intention of falling back in love with the man she left behind, inheriting a magical bookshop with opinions, or becoming the Bishop which everyone seems to think Crimson Hollow needs. But something cold is feeding on the town’s magic, and saving Crimson Hollow may require the one thing Julie and Cade have spent twenty years avoiding: trusting each other with the parts that still hurt.

Spellwork & Second Chances is a cozy midlife paranormal romance with midlife magic, a sentient bookshop, found family, second-chance love, autumn-town charm, a sarcastic magpie familiar, and a bear-shifter hero who has been quietly pining for two decades.