The lodge has opinions. The goose has authority. Dinner is almost ready.
Laura Keller used to run one of the best farm-to-table restaurants downstate. Then the marriage collapsed, the restaurant went down with it, and the only job offer left was four hours north at a faded lake lodge nobody had heard of in twenty years.
The plan was simple. Cook competently. Want nothing. Leave before the season turns.
Then the soup made a grown man cry in front of four witnesses. The bread tasted like being loved. The stove started flaring on its own every time Laura felt something she was not ready to feel. And a large, deeply opinionated goose named Pancake followed her in from the parking lot and refused to leave.
Her magic also, very inconveniently, trapped the caretaker. Cal Hoffman was finally loading his truck after twenty years of thankless repairs. Now the truck will not start, the building will not let him leave, and the chef who did this to him keeps making food that makes him want to stay.
Book 1 of The Witches of Birchwood Lake is a cozy witch romantic comedy with a forty-seven year old heroine, grumpy meets sunshine, a sentient lodge with a talking cat, closed-door heat, and a complete happily-ever-after. No cliffhangers, ever.
