The Witch in The Window : Contemporary Lesbian Romance: A Spellbound Tale of Loss, Healing, and Unexpected Love (Hearts Of Honey Bay #5)

The Witch in the Window
A Honey Bay Novel (Book 5)
A spellbinding sapphic romance about grief, healing, and the unexpected magic of being seen.

Margot Sinclair doesn’t believe in magic—only in grief, ghosts, and the unbearable ache of a life unraveled.

After losing her wife and walking away from the academic career that once defined her, Margot arrives in Honey Bay, a small coastal town that looks like it was plucked from a postcard and dipped in sugar. But beneath the charm and pastel storefronts lies something older. Something watching.

Margot’s new rental—dubbed The Driftwood Nest by locals—is a weather-worn cottage clinging to the edge of a cliff and just as hollow as she feels. She came to disappear. To unravel in silence. But Honey Bay won’t let her. And neither will the woman who leaves bundles of herbs on her doorstep like offerings.

Ivy Nightshade is used to whispers. Witch, healer, loner, legend—she's been all of them since she arrived in town fifteen years ago and never left. Her garden grows where others fear to walk. Her teas soothe aches that doctors can’t explain. And her quiet life suits her—until she sees Margot standing on the cliffs, grief wrapped around her like a second skin.

Something in Margot calls to Ivy’s oldest the urge to protect, to comfort, to see. But Margot is sharp-edged and closed-off, hiding behind sarcasm and intellectual armor. And Ivy has sworn never to get entangled in anyone’s pain again—especially not someone who has no reason to stay.

But the storm that brought Margot to Honey Bay isn’t over. It’s just beginning.

As the town prepares for its annual Honey Bay Festival, tensions simmer. Secrets surface. And Margot finds herself drawn to Ivy’s strange, soft power—both the magic in her hands and the truth in her eyes.

Soon, what started as a quiet detour turns into something deeper. Something dangerous. Something that might just save them both.

But only if Margot is willing to believe in the one thing she swore she’d never trust again—hope.

Perfect for readers who
✓ Slow-burn sapphic romance
✓ Witchy, herbal, and cottage core aesthetics
✓ Grief-to-healing emotional arcs
✓ Women over 30 finding love and purpose
✓ Atmospheric small towns with secrets
✓ Found family and soul-deep connection
✓ Enemies-to-allies-to-lovers dynamics