Burn After Manifesting
(2026)(The seventh book in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series)
A novel by Ivy Spellman
For nine years, Claire Whitley has been manifesting like her life depends on it. Some days it has.
She built The Gilded Moon from rock bottom after her divorce. She lights a candle every morning. She writes the day's intention on rose-colored paper in her neatest handwriting, because the universe responds to legibility. She has a bearded dragon named Ptolemy, a clientele who mostly buys candles to be polite, and one woman who returns a forty-dollar candle every six weeks because her husband Bernard is, Claire strongly suspects, dead.
The universe has never lit a candle back. Until now.
Then one morning, twenty-seven tealights ignite themselves in a soft collective whoosh. A Tower card slides off the rack and refuses to stay put. Within days, every window on Main Street is spotlessly clean, her sales have doubled, and the candles in her shop are now operating as a workforce of small unpaid interns. Claire's quarterly objectives have apparently become operational policy for the actual cosmos, and the cosmos is enthusiastic, literal, and slightly unhinged.
And then there's Nate Cordero, the new Fairhaven Fire Marshal, who walks into her shop with a clipboard, calls her ma'am twice, cites her for seven violations, and says I'm sorry. Nate has nice posture. Nate writes citations in handwriting suspiciously neat. Nate's entire job is being concerned about exactly the kind of woman whose candles have started lighting themselves whenever they feel like it.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, Cassie's croissant deliveries, the coven's Sunday dinners, and a bearded dragon who is finally, after nine years, showing signs of having opinions, Claire has to figure out the difference between intention and accidental cosmic mandate, before her next slip of rose-colored paper does something she can't undo.
Burn After Manifesting is Book 7 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've been told they're a lot, who privately suspected they were right all along, and who would very much like the universe to acknowledge it in writing. Expect chaotic manifestation magic, candles with workplace ethics, a fire marshal with regret in his eyes, found family at forty-something, and a slow-burn romance with a man who waits to hear the real answer.
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She built The Gilded Moon from rock bottom after her divorce. She lights a candle every morning. She writes the day's intention on rose-colored paper in her neatest handwriting, because the universe responds to legibility. She has a bearded dragon named Ptolemy, a clientele who mostly buys candles to be polite, and one woman who returns a forty-dollar candle every six weeks because her husband Bernard is, Claire strongly suspects, dead.
The universe has never lit a candle back. Until now.
Then one morning, twenty-seven tealights ignite themselves in a soft collective whoosh. A Tower card slides off the rack and refuses to stay put. Within days, every window on Main Street is spotlessly clean, her sales have doubled, and the candles in her shop are now operating as a workforce of small unpaid interns. Claire's quarterly objectives have apparently become operational policy for the actual cosmos, and the cosmos is enthusiastic, literal, and slightly unhinged.
And then there's Nate Cordero, the new Fairhaven Fire Marshal, who walks into her shop with a clipboard, calls her ma'am twice, cites her for seven violations, and says I'm sorry. Nate has nice posture. Nate writes citations in handwriting suspiciously neat. Nate's entire job is being concerned about exactly the kind of woman whose candles have started lighting themselves whenever they feel like it.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, Cassie's croissant deliveries, the coven's Sunday dinners, and a bearded dragon who is finally, after nine years, showing signs of having opinions, Claire has to figure out the difference between intention and accidental cosmic mandate, before her next slip of rose-colored paper does something she can't undo.
Burn After Manifesting is Book 7 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've been told they're a lot, who privately suspected they were right all along, and who would very much like the universe to acknowledge it in writing. Expect chaotic manifestation magic, candles with workplace ethics, a fire marshal with regret in his eyes, found family at forty-something, and a slow-burn romance with a man who waits to hear the real answer.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Midlife witch romance with actual laughs
Spiritual-but-skeptical heroines who deserved vindication years ago
Slow burn with a patient, quietly competent love interest who notices everything
Small-town magic that affects the whole zip code
A bearded dragon who knows more than he lets on
Cozy paranormal rom coms you can finish in a weekend
Each Hot Flashes & Hexes book stands alone. But once you've been to Sunday dinner at Cassie's, you're not getting out easy.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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