A wandering witch, a grieving charmer, and two weeks until the veil thins.
Erin Cassidy has made a life out of helping strangers say goodbye. She rolls into the little lake town of Birchwood two weeks before Samhain with a vintage camper, an elderly crow of poor character, and one job, to help a failing lodge and the women who love it hold on through one more winter.
Charlie Larson has two weeks of his own. The plan is simple. Empty his late grandmother's cottage, sell it, and be gone before the cold sets in, without sitting still long enough to feel a single minute of it. He has an easy grin and a joke for everything, which works beautifully on everyone in town except the witch who reads the grief under it inside of a minute.
The veil thins a little more every night. So does Charlie's charm, and so does Erin's certainty that the next town is the one where she belongs. She is the woman who walks everyone else across their thresholds. He might be the first person who makes her want to stop at one.
Trick of the Light is the prequel novella to The Witches of Birchwood Lake, a cozy witch romantic fantasy series about women over forty with real magic and real second acts. Expect autumn atmosphere, a crow with a criminal record, a lodge cat who runs the building and says so, a closed-door slow burn, and a happily ever after.
