Attorney Bella Hexley believes in rules—legal, personal, and magical. Rules are how she survived divorce, debt, and the kind of betrayal that leaves scars you can’t itemize in court.
Now she’s rebuilt: a thriving law practice with her best friend and roommate Gianna, a warm-but-chaotic home for their daughters, and the steady (if unsolicited) guidance of Reginald—the Victorian ghost who critiques all her life choices.
Then the Council launches a citywide “safety” initiative: free charms, official seals, reassuring speeches.
Bella’s magic says it’s wrong.
When a sudden glitch rattles Coven Hill, she discovers the charms aren’t protection at all—they’re siphons, stitched into a hidden grid spanning the district. Someone is draining power from homes, businesses… even people, siphoning away their life force. And the Council is smiling while it happens.
With her ex-husband seeking redemption at terrible personal cost, her boyfriend financially entangled in the program, and Reginald warning that old laws don’t fade—they feed—Bella has one move left: treat the entire city like a case file.
Then Jack Payne walks back into her life.
A reaper bound by laws he can’t break—and the only man who’s ever matched her argument for argument—Jack suspects he knows what’s bleeding through Coven Hill’s wards.
If Bella can’t stop it, Coven Hill won’t just lose its magic.
It will wake what’s buried beneath it.
HEX APPEAL is a character-driven urban fantasy perfect for readers who love magic with grown-up stakes, slow-burn romance, and heroines who refuse to surrender the lives they’ve fought to rebuild.
