Spells Between the Lines
(2026)(The first book in the Bookmarks and Broomsticks:: A Magical Midlife Witch series)
A novel by D K Bolton
When your life falls apart at forty-something, sometimes the only way forward is through the doors of a magical bookstore that knows your name…
After six years together, Fable Pierce doesn’t expect her boyfriend to vanish while she’s away on a girls’ trip, leaving behind an empty townhome, three days on the lease, and a breakup note that barely counts as a post-it. Humiliated, heartbroken, and bracing herself for her family’s we told you so, Fable runs north to the one place she’s always felt safe.
Her Aunt Twila’s quiet bookstore in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
What Fable expects are peaceful days, hot tea, and time to figure out what comes next.
What she gets is a bookstore that sighs, shifts its shelves, and settles around her like it’s been waiting.
The town of Thornbroom Hollow watches her with knowing eyes. Strange parcels arrive at odd hours. And Aunt Twila retires so abruptly, Fable swears she can hear the tires squeal.
Before she can catch her breath, Fable finds herself the reluctant caretaker of an enchanted bookstore and the latest woman in a long, hidden line of midlife witches. A role she never asked for… but one the magic seems determined to give her.
As the Northwoods hum with old enchantments responding to her presence, Fable’s quiet restart gets complicated by a steady, sharp-eyed police chief who’s far too observant, and far too handsome, for comfort. He doesn’t believe in magic.
Yet.
And Fable has no idea how long she can keep the truth hidden as the bookstore grows moody, the parcels begin to misbehave, and the town’s secrets press closer.
When she finds a leather-bound book that wasn’t there when she arrived, a book that knows her name and whispers when she opens it, even stranger things begin to happen.
If Fable wants a true second chance, she’ll have to decide whether she’s brave enough to claim the magic awakening at her fingertips before the bookstore chooses someone else entirely.
Because being over forty doesn’t mean the story is over.
Sometimes, it’s when the real magic begins.
Perfect for readers who love cozy magical towns, enchanted bookstores, slow-burn romance, found family, and midlife witchy awakenings, Spells Between the Lines is the first book in the Bookmarks and Broomsticks series, where starting over comes with spells, secrets, and just enough danger to keep things interesting.
Genre: Fantasy
After six years together, Fable Pierce doesn’t expect her boyfriend to vanish while she’s away on a girls’ trip, leaving behind an empty townhome, three days on the lease, and a breakup note that barely counts as a post-it. Humiliated, heartbroken, and bracing herself for her family’s we told you so, Fable runs north to the one place she’s always felt safe.
Her Aunt Twila’s quiet bookstore in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
What Fable expects are peaceful days, hot tea, and time to figure out what comes next.
What she gets is a bookstore that sighs, shifts its shelves, and settles around her like it’s been waiting.
The town of Thornbroom Hollow watches her with knowing eyes. Strange parcels arrive at odd hours. And Aunt Twila retires so abruptly, Fable swears she can hear the tires squeal.
Before she can catch her breath, Fable finds herself the reluctant caretaker of an enchanted bookstore and the latest woman in a long, hidden line of midlife witches. A role she never asked for… but one the magic seems determined to give her.
As the Northwoods hum with old enchantments responding to her presence, Fable’s quiet restart gets complicated by a steady, sharp-eyed police chief who’s far too observant, and far too handsome, for comfort. He doesn’t believe in magic.
Yet.
And Fable has no idea how long she can keep the truth hidden as the bookstore grows moody, the parcels begin to misbehave, and the town’s secrets press closer.
When she finds a leather-bound book that wasn’t there when she arrived, a book that knows her name and whispers when she opens it, even stranger things begin to happen.
If Fable wants a true second chance, she’ll have to decide whether she’s brave enough to claim the magic awakening at her fingertips before the bookstore chooses someone else entirely.
Because being over forty doesn’t mean the story is over.
Sometimes, it’s when the real magic begins.
Perfect for readers who love cozy magical towns, enchanted bookstores, slow-burn romance, found family, and midlife witchy awakenings, Spells Between the Lines is the first book in the Bookmarks and Broomsticks series, where starting over comes with spells, secrets, and just enough danger to keep things interesting.
Genre: Fantasy