Dana Ashton has been fired five times in two years.
She used to have a corporate job, a comfy salary, and a townhouse. Now she has a Pomeranian, a room at the Holiday Inn in Fairhaven, and a coffee shop shift that starts at six in the morning. The Pomeranian is twelve pounds, mostly fur and judgment. The Holiday Inn has a wallpaper border of small green ferns. The coffee shop belongs to a woman named Meredith who does not care about Dana's master's degree or her résumé or the fact that she keeps setting things on fire.
About that.
Dana set fire to a stranger's geraniums on a public sidewalk. She set fire to a chalk sign outside the coffee shop. She set fire to a retired postman's newspaper while he was reading it. She set fire to a lemonade stand banner at the town fair. She set fire to a pair of shop rags at the local blacksmith's forge while she was kissing the blacksmith, which she was not supposed to be doing, because she was a favor the blacksmith owed a seventy-one-year-old woman named Margaret, and Margaret's favors do not come with a kissing clause.
The blacksmith is Wade Carter. Wade has a forge on Pine Road, a German Shepherd named Forge, and patience Dana has spent her whole life trying to outrun. He is not chasing her. He is standing at his anvil waiting for her to stop running. He has a paperback in his truck. He is in no rush.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, a coven of midlife witches who keep walking into the coffee shop to size her up, and an apology she still owes, Dana has to figure out whether her body is trying to burn her life down or light her a path out of it — before the magic, the man, and the Pomeranian make the decision for her.
Crash & Burnout is Book 8 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who have spent their whole lives running and are ready to find out what happens when the fires finally mean something. Expect accidental combustion, a Pomeranian with executive authority, a blacksmith who puts out fires without being asked, found family that won't take no for an answer, and a midlife witch romance with a slow burn that is not entirely figurative.
Perfect for readers who love:
She used to have a corporate job, a comfy salary, and a townhouse. Now she has a Pomeranian, a room at the Holiday Inn in Fairhaven, and a coffee shop shift that starts at six in the morning. The Pomeranian is twelve pounds, mostly fur and judgment. The Holiday Inn has a wallpaper border of small green ferns. The coffee shop belongs to a woman named Meredith who does not care about Dana's master's degree or her résumé or the fact that she keeps setting things on fire.
About that.
Dana set fire to a stranger's geraniums on a public sidewalk. She set fire to a chalk sign outside the coffee shop. She set fire to a retired postman's newspaper while he was reading it. She set fire to a lemonade stand banner at the town fair. She set fire to a pair of shop rags at the local blacksmith's forge while she was kissing the blacksmith, which she was not supposed to be doing, because she was a favor the blacksmith owed a seventy-one-year-old woman named Margaret, and Margaret's favors do not come with a kissing clause.
The blacksmith is Wade Carter. Wade has a forge on Pine Road, a German Shepherd named Forge, and patience Dana has spent her whole life trying to outrun. He is not chasing her. He is standing at his anvil waiting for her to stop running. He has a paperback in his truck. He is in no rush.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, a coven of midlife witches who keep walking into the coffee shop to size her up, and an apology she still owes, Dana has to figure out whether her body is trying to burn her life down or light her a path out of it — before the magic, the man, and the Pomeranian make the decision for her.
Crash & Burnout is Book 8 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who have spent their whole lives running and are ready to find out what happens when the fires finally mean something. Expect accidental combustion, a Pomeranian with executive authority, a blacksmith who puts out fires without being asked, found family that won't take no for an answer, and a midlife witch romance with a slow burn that is not entirely figurative.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Funny midlife witch romance with real heart
Grumpy heroine meets impossibly patient hero
Blacksmith romance with sparks (literal and otherwise)
Starting over at rock bottom in a small town
Cozy paranormal rom com with found family
Books you can finish in a weekend and think about all week
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