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The holiday season in Deadlights Cove is as chaotic as you'd expect, especially with Val and Caedmon's Great Coveish Bake-Off just days away.For her first Christmas in the Cove, witch Aurora is determined to embrace every festive tradition the town has to offer. Between decorating, baking, and spreading holiday cheer wherever she goes, she's well on her way—if she can ignore the dark storm cloud living in the other half of her duplex.Nox wants nothing more than to survive the season in peace. He's avoided Christmas for years, and the last thing he needs is a relentlessly cheerful neighbor stringing lights, singing carols, and dragging holiday spirit onto his doorstep. Unfortunately, Aurora seems determined to make him participate whether he likes it or not.When the two find themselves competing in the town's annual bake-off, Aurora is convinced she can help Nox rediscover a little Christmas magic. Nox is equally convinced she's completely out of her mind.Between found family, magical mishaps, and one very determined witch, these opposites-attract neighbors might discover that the best holiday traditions are the ones you never saw coming.Follow Aurora and Nox's story, along with the quirky band of local misfits in this holiday novella set in the Deadlights Cove world. While each book follows a different couple, the Deadlights Cove series is best read in order beginning with book one, Smoke Show.

Natalie should've known better than to volunteer for anything involving one of Val and Caedmon's holiday parties.Between playing guitar for the Lost Talisman, managing wolf pack responsibilities, and running her own business, she's already stretched thin. The last thing she needs is another project. So naturally, she ends up inviting local fox shifter Casey to move in for the holidays.With nowhere else to go besides his bandmate Dillon's uncomfortable couch, Casey accepts the offer—even when it comes with strings attached. Namely helping Natalie prepare for the biggest New Year's Eve party Deadlights Cove has ever seen.Cutting paper chains and hanging decorations seems like a small price to pay for a temporary place to stay.Living with Natalie, on the other hand?That might be a problem.As their friendship deepens and the countdown to midnight grows closer, Casey finds himself falling for the one woman who's made it clear they're better off as friends.Follow Natalie and Casey's story, along with the familiar cast of quirky magical misfits, in this holiday novella set in the Deadlights Cove world.While this story can be enjoyed on its own, it takes place after the events of Karma is a Witch and contains spoilers for the Deadlights Cove series.

When the dean of Bishop College in Boston threatened to close Petra Ambrose's Pre-Revolutionary American History department, she could feel all of her work towards her dream career slipping through her fingers. To her dismay, students weren't interested in American Puritanical culture and the status of women in their time, not unless it involved trendy witches glamourized in modern society.In a last hope to save her job, Petra was tasked with finding something new and exciting to draw in more students. Not exactly sure where to start, she headed up the coast to explore sites other than cliche and touristy Salem.Small-town Maine had her imagining a quaint village straight out of a romance novel on the water. To some extent, she found it, with the quirky, nosy neighbors, but Deadlights Cove was entirely too dingy to be run by its no-nonsense mayor. Plus, everyone in town seemed to be in on some joke at her expense, none more so than the mischievous and overly friendly bartender, Blaze. Far too handsome for his own good, the man had the unfair ability to irritate her more than anyone else ever had while simultaneously setting her heart racing.With obstacles popping up at every turn, Petra was ready to throw her hands up and go back to the drawing board for a new strategy until she wound up at the center of a murder investigation.Nothing was as it seemed in Deadlights Cove, and Petra could have just unearthed more than she'd ever imagined. But was discovering the truth about this town worth giving up everything she'd worked so hard for?Smoke Show kicks off the cozy paranormal rom-com Deadlights Cove series. Each romance has a happy ever after, but the mystery unfolds across the series, so start here and don't miss a clue.

Nimue Fitzpatrick never really meant to leave Deadlights Cove, but after she'd impulsively kissed her best friend, Kit Sayana, it suddenly became easier to take freelance photography jobs out of town. Just what she needed to forget the mess and the amber eyes she couldn't bear to face anymore in the Cove. Now, after four years away, it might be time to admit that she's been avoiding him.The last four years haven't been the easiest for Kit as the pressure to assume his responsibilities as future Alpha for the Arrowwood skulk takes over his life. Needing space, he moved out of his family home and into the apartment above his tea shop, Immortali-Tea. Despite the closeness among the members of his skulk, there is one thing he hasn't shared with anyone, even his closest friends: ever since he kissed Nimue all those years ago, he's known she's his mate. The problem is that an interspecies mate bond is impossible, so it can never be.When Nimue returns home for her cousin Blaze's Halloween party, everything changes. No matter how the two childhood friends try to avoid their feelings for each other, fate has other plans. With magic turning on the shifters, the town is set into a panic that requires everyone to work together — especially Kit and Nimue.Can they recover their prior friendship enough to come together and solve the next mystery, before it has lasting effects on the shifters in town?Deja Brew is Book Two in the cozy paranormal rom-com Deadlights Cove series. Each romance stands on its own, but the mystery unfolds across the series, so start with Smoke Show and don't miss a clue.