Spells Between the Lines

When your boyfriend of twelve years sends you on a girls’ trip, you don’t expect to come home to an empty townhome, three days left on the lease, and a breakup note that barely qualifies as a Post-it.

Forty-something Fable Pierce always suspected commitment wasn’t her ex’s strong suit, but she never imagined he’d vanish overnight and leave her feeling like the world’s biggest fool. With her family ready to serve up a steaming plate of we told you so, she escapes to the one person who’s never judged Aunt Twila, owner of a charming old bookstore tucked deep in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

Fable expects quiet days with hot tea and paperback novels. Instead, she finds a bookstore with a mind of its own, odd parcels arriving at strange hours, and a town full of neighbors who act like they’ve been waiting for her. Not to mention, Aunt Twila retired so fast she nearly left tire marks.

Suddenly, Fable is the accidental caretaker of a very enchanted bookstore, the overwhelmed recipient of globe-trotting parcels, and quite possibly the Northwoods’ newest midlife witch.

Then the police chief shows up, steady and sharp-eyed and inconveniently handsome, wondering why peculiar deliveries keep arriving at the bookstore. He has no idea magic exists in his quiet lakeside town, and Fable has no idea how she’s supposed to hide it… especially when those deliveries start acting up, the bookstore grows moody, and the Northwoods hums with old enchantments.

But everything shifts the moment she discovers an old leather-bound book tucked into a shelf that certainly wasn’t there yesterday… a book that somehow knows her name and begins to whisper the moment she opens it.

If Fable wants a true second chance, she’ll have to follow the magic quietly waking around her before those strange deliveries grow bolder, the bookstore chooses a new favorite, and the unsuspecting police chief wanders a little too close to a secret this cozy town has been keeping for far too long.