They were the ones who bound the magic. Now, they are the ones who must set it free.
Lifetimes ago, five priestesses cast a spell to protect the power of every woman who would come after them—sealing away the goddess’s magic to keep it from those who sought to steal it. Sisters of the Red Thread, they whispered the spell in the dark of night, an incantation of forgotten power. But protection came at a cost: their own lives.
Now, their bodies are humming with the stirrings of something ancient. They weren’t supposed to remember, but the goddess is stirring from her slumber—and so is their magic.
The only problem: they are not the only ones who know.
A secretive group has been waiting—watching—for their awakening, intent on siphoning their magic before they can reclaim it. This society has surveilled the women over lifetimes, the leader intent on keeping his power.
Their darkness is about to discover just how dangerous a woman’s magic can be.
The women must find each other, unlock the ritual buried in their blood, and awaken the goddess once more. If they fail, history will repeat itself. If they succeed… the world will never be the same.
Building a life for herself on a small island town off the coast of North Carolina, Piper Cloud is just looking to finish her second novel and not think about the ghosts of her past. And sure, maybe working at a coffee shop in her 30s wasn’t her ultimate dream, but she’s content… ish. At the very least, she enjoys distracting herself with the surfers outside her window—until one of them ends up in her coffee shop and her world tilts on its axis.
Saint Hawthorn is running from his own ghosts as part of a security detail team for the nation’s elite. Atoning for the decisions he made after his sister’s murder, he spends his days leading his men into hostile environments as a way to chase the adrenaline and forget about his grief. But then he walks into the Beach Bodega and finds himself face to face with a lavender haired beauty who steals his breath—and makes him question everything he’s been chasing.
What begins as an innocent meet-cute from an altercation in Piper’s coffee shop quickly turns into both of their ghosts coming to haunt them with the past, pushing them into a storyline they never saw coming. Running from a leader of a Christian nationalist sect who now has Piper’s name on his hit list, she has to decide if she will give into the magnetic pull of Saint, a man determined to keep her and her best friends’ safe while fighting his own grief.
Will they be able to heal from the trauma of their past?
Or will they continue to run from the warmth of each other’s sun?
It only takes one night.
There’s no way Brandon Monet could have feelings for Winter Stratford. At least, that’s her assumption. As her brother’s best friend, Brandon has been off limits for as long as she’s known him - but that doesn’t stop the undeniable current of electricity that Winter feels when he’s around.
And then one night, everything changes, and it’s very clear that Winter is not invisible to Brandon as she once assumed.
But now that the spark has been lit, what are they supposed to do with the flame?
Brandon runs, and Winter is left to pretend that nothing happened. She quickly discovers this is impossible, especially when Brandon returns and the heat of his gaze is just as magnetic as before.
What comes next is a dance of timing and missing the mark - and the truth that sometimes our fall into love looks more like stumbling into acceptance.
Sometimes, the slow burns build the strongest flame.
Nova Scofield isn’t looking for anything serious. She’s not looking for anything at all, actually. Still recovering after walking away from her narcissistic fiancé weeks before their wedding, she is happily focused on her floral shop, Wild Flora.
But then Jax Stratford walks into the shop and Nova suddenly remembers what it’s like to feel the gravitational pull of chemistry. For one night, she allows herself the freedom of letting her desire lead her.
The only problem is Jax isn’t a one night stand — he’s a potential business partner. Despite her best judgment, she agrees to a date and finds herself falling head over heels.
But Nova’s ex refuses to let go — he keeps showing up and threatening to take over the flower shop she built with her best friend — making it impossible for Nova to move on from their relationship and the control he had over her.
To make matters worse, history surfaces and her ex shares something with her, making it seem Jax has kept the truth from her this entire time.
One moment Juniper Reese existed, and the next she vanished into thin air.
This is how it feels for Lavender, her twin, when she receives the call that Juniper didn’t show up to her job one morning. Still adjusting to Juniper’s cross-country move to run from the ghosts of their mother’s death, Lavender knows something is wrong — but she also knows her sister is still alive.
As she follows Juniper’s footsteps in an unfamiliar town, she begins to uncover a plot that seems to suggest her sister was being stalked before her disappearance. Now it’s on her to find Juniper before time runs out and convince those around her that her disappearance wasn’t an attempt to “get away.”
What she doesn’t know is that she’s being watched by someone who just realized perfection came twice. He begins to hone in on Lavender, his attention never satisfied until he can have them both for himself.
Will Lavender be able to find her sister before time runs out?
Or will she be the next target in an obsession gone wrong?
At first glance, Kera Collins' life appears perfect: the best friends, the best school, the attention of Dex Albright, the deliciously irresistible grandson to the Headmaster.
But she has only ever wanted one thing - a golden envelope inviting her to La Boheme, the secret society formed within the walls of her boarding school. As a senior, she gets her wish. But when the secrets turn deadly, Kera has a choice to make: trust her friends or rely on the prestige and connections only available to her through the elite?
