The Serendipity

An Only Magic in the Building Standalone

De: Emma St. Clair

Narrado por: Stephanie Rose, Lee Samuels

He's a no-nonsense businessman. She's a free-spirited baker. But the magical building they live in seems to think they're a perfect match…

When billionaire Archer Gaines needs to escape his father's corrupt shadow and a related scandal, he purchases The Serendipity, a historic apartment building far from New York City.

He believes in bottom lines and big business deals, definitely not in the local folklore surrounding the town of Serendipity Springs. So he's eager to move forward with plans to flip the building into luxury lofts.

But The Serendipity doesn't particularly care what Archer believes, and the building has plans of its own.

Willa never believed in the rumors about her "magical" building. But that was before she walked into her closet looking for a sweater and found herself in another apartment altogether—in the penthouse closet of the grumpy and unfortunately attractive new building owner.

This is less of a meet-cute than a meet-ugly, and things only go downhill from there.

When Archer announces sweeping changes that include a rent increase, he becomes public enemy number one for the residents. And by charging Willa for use of the commercial kitchen, he puts her fledgling baking business at risk.

With his progress being (magically) blocked at every turn, Archer grows desperate for help.

But the bewitching woman he found hiding in his closet seems to present both the answer and a larger problem: because Archer never planned to fall in love or stay in Serendipity Springs forever…

The Serendipity is a standalone book in the Only Magic in the Building series. These closed-door, whimsical romance books are all set in the same historic building, which has a habit of playing matchmaker with its residents. There are light magical elements, but no spells, shifters, or dark magic of any kind.

©2025 Emma St. Clair (P)2025 Podium Audio

Sweet and heartfelt

The storyline was wonderful and the narrators did a great job! And I LOOOOVE Emma St Clair!

Delightful

Loved everything about this book. Love is magic and this book has just the right amount.

Magic

I liked the magic of the closet. And I am glad both of them got to experience it!

I loved this cozy book

I really enjoyed this book it was very cute and a cozy read. Also I learned about agoraphobia. I didn’t know what it was but realized I suffered with it as a child for a while. It’s nice to be able to learn that it’s a real thing and not just something I “made up “
Also the narrators were very good

The language of this book was free of gratuitous, cursing. This makes for an enjoyable read.

I love that it shows how real relationship with develop. I like how the book show cases people dealing with panic attacks anxieties in a healthier manner.

Love the author but female lead character was weak

The audio was mostly good but I didn’t like the female narrators “man” voice. It sounded stilted and constipated and emotionless. The rest of the audio was fine.

Now I enjoy most of the authors other books quite a lot and have read most everything by the other authors in this series so I was excited for it to come out. My problem wasn’t the mystic element I guess my problem was that the female lead was weak. She couldn’t afford market rates for her rent, she couldn’t pay for a commercial kitchen, but all these people were entitled to freebies and were villainizing the new building owner for raising rents when they hadn’t had a rent increase in like 20 years and the building wasn’t profitable. This was crazy. And why would I want to look up to a baker who didn’t have her act together to be able to support herself. And in the end she didn’t figure it out on her own, she was rescued by a rich man. I just found the characters to be immature. I will keep reading this author but hope for a little more depth and maturity to future lead characters.