Spooky Season Reads
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Spooky Season Reads

From cozy cottage-core magic to dark paranormal erotica — BIPOC witches, cursed families, and love stories that haunt you long after you close the book.

"We don't have to worry in witch romancelandia. These tales are about women finding themselves, using their power for badassery." — Aleia

Cozy

Small towns with big magic, found families, and romances that warm you from the inside out. Your hot-drink-and-a-blanket reads.

Elemental Love Series — Celestine Martin
Witchful Thinking
Witchful Thinking
Celestine Martin
#1

A family of witches, a cozy small-town shrouded in magic, and an opposites-attract romance. Lucinda Caraway loves her life in Freya Grove — until a wish backfires and she can no longer say no to anything, including her high school crush who needs help unjinxing his house.

Black AuthorBlack MCWitchSmall TownSecond ChanceSpell Gone Wrong
Kiss and Spell
Kiss and Spell
Celestine Martin
#2

When her fairytale ending crashes into heartbreak, Ursula Caraway goes back to telling fortunes in the local psychic shop — until a fae prince is cursed to her realm and she agrees to coach him toward his cure: the perfect kiss. Which she absolutely is not going to give him.

Black AuthorBlack MCWitchSmall TownFaeCurse Breaking
Deja Brew
Deja Brew
Celestine Martin
#3Halloween

Everything is going wrong for Sirena Caraway — wonky culinary powers, a failed job, an embarrassing Halloween party. So she makes a desperate wish and wakes up to repeat the entire month of October. Including the cute guy with his own magic on the fritz.

Black AuthorBlack MCWitchSecond ChanceSpell Gone WrongHalloween
And They Lived Happily Ever After
And They Lived Happily Ever After
Therese Beharrie

A successful romance author dictates her novels via dreams — until her brother's best friend shows up as a literal knight in shining armor, and she discovers her fictional dreams just might be reality. Charming, humorous, and deeply South African.

Black AuthorMagical Realism
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
Seasonal Re-Read

A real witch plays a fake witch on the internet, then gets hired to tutor three baby witches in a house full of eccentric caretakers. Found family, a hot librarian, and world-building that sets the cozy witch romance bar.

"This book sets the cozy witch book bar. If you love found families, children, and a hot librarian, you'll beg to read this for the first time over and over." — Aleia

Asian/AAPI AuthorWitchFound FamilySmall Town
Mysterious

Magic with an edge — curses, demons, competing powers, and love interests who might be the problem. The books that keep you reading past midnight.

Wild Magic Series — Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Witch of Wild Things
Witch of Wild Things
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
#1

Legend holds that a Flores woman once offended the old gods, and every daughter since has been touched by magic. Sage Flores talks to plants — which comes in handy when she returns home to work at a local nursery, only to find her boss is the man who broke her heart.

Latine AuthorLatine MCWitchMagical RealismSecond Chance
Lightning in Her Hands
Lightning in Her Hands
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
#2

Gifted — or cursed — with the power to influence the weather, Teal Flores needs a date to her ex's wedding. He needs a fake wife. Also, she controls lightning. Sparks are mathematically unavoidable.

Latine AuthorLatine MCWitchFake Dating
The Magic of Untamed Hearts
The Magic of Untamed Hearts
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
#3New

After several years stuck as a ghost, Sky Flores learns to reconnect with the living again with the help of her handsome neighbor in this lush romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Witch of Wild Things.

Latine AuthorLatine MCWitchMagical Realism
What the Hex
What the Hex
Alexis Daria
Novella

The Addams Family meets Miami. A witch returns to her concealed island nation for her sister's wedding, only to discover her brother-in-law-to-be is possessed by a demon, and everyone's under a spell — except her childhood rival, who she's now forced to work with.

Latine AuthorLatine MCWitchSecond Chance
Best Hex Ever
Best Hex Ever
Nadia El-Fassi
Debut

As a skilled kitchen witch, Dina Whitlock runs her very own London café, serving magic-infused treats — until her best friend's wedding brings her face-to-face with the returning best man, and the hex she carries puts him in danger of more than just bad luck.

Asian/AAPI AuthorSouth Asian MCWitchWeddingSpell Gone Wrong
Witch You Would
Witch You Would
Lia Amador

When a young witch gets a life-changing chance to compete in a magical reality show, sparks fly as she's partnered with a man she can't stand. In a Miami where enchantment is just another college major, the magic of television could change two lives — if Gil's secret doesn't fizzle everything out first.

Latine AuthorLatine MCWitchEnemies to Lovers
Love, Witches, and Wahala
Love, Witches, and Wahala
Christine Cowan

A Nigerian witch must grapple with an ancient curse that will erase her family's magic and doom her beloved bakery forever unless she finds her soulmate. In a desperate attempt to force fate's hand, Nneka brews a love potion — chaos erupts when it's accidentally added to her famous puff puffs.

African AuthorBlack AuthorWitchSpell Gone Wrong
Spooky

Dark, erotic, and haunted. These aren't just spooky-season vibes — they're the reads that actually put you on edge in the best way.

Taboo & Voodoo — Chencia C. Higgins
An Illicit Seduction
An Illicit Seduction
Chencia C. Higgins
#1Seasonal Re-ReadNovella

A workplace romance where she finally gives the younger guy a chance and he rocks the shit out of her world. Dark, erotic, and something about it is deeply, inexplicably spooky. Aleia's favorite autumnal novella — the one she returns to every October without fail.

"I can't tell you how magical this is (no pun intended) just that it's my favorite spooky novella to read year after year." — Aleia

Black AuthorBlack MCBlack LoveWorkplace Romance
The Wrong Reciprocation
The Wrong Reciprocation
Chencia C. Higgins
#2Novella

Family is everything to Twyla — but even loved ones can disappoint. In her campaign to right ancestral wrongs, she accidentally unearths secrets dormant for more than half a century, causing everything she thought she knew to look more than a little funny in the light.

Black AuthorBlack MCBlack Love
The Tenant
The Tenant
Katrina Jackson
Novella

He inherits a house out of the blue and hightails it to a small Louisiana town. Obviously the house is haunted. Somehow the love interest is a ghost. And they do it. Inexplicably this ghostly romance is both laugh-out-loud funny and might fry your e-reader.

Black AuthorBlack MCParanormal
Now You See Him
Now You See Him
Nina Saxena
Novella

Tina's six-year relationship is unraveling. She moves into a renovated house in a small Pennsylvania town to save it — but since relocating, strange things have started happening. The basement door opens on its own, she feels like someone is watching her, and the handsome stranger who sold her the property won't tell her about his brother who lived there before. Then there are the dreams that wake her in the middle of the night drenched in fear and desire.

Asian/AAPI AuthorSouth Asian MCSmall TownParanormal