Flight Risk & Broomsticks
(2026)(The sixth book in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series)
A novel by Ivy Spellman
Kit Holloway doesn't stay. Two marriages and twenty cities will tell you so.
She's been a bartender in Austin, a real estate agent in Savannah, a yoga instructor in Sedona for three months, a food truck owner in Portland with regulars who learned her name, and a corporate trainer in Charlotte for two years that felt like a prison sentence. Everything Kit owns fits in two suitcases and a duffel bag. That's on purpose.
Then her great-aunt Mabel left her a 1940s colonial on Pine Street in Fairhaven, Virginia, and the plan was simple. Flip it, sell it, leave. Three weeks, tops.
Five weeks in, Kit has failed to leave twice.
Her rental car keeps downgrading by the week. Her phone charger is a rotary cord. The house is mid-century modern by morning and Victorian by afternoon, and every buyer who walks through sees a different property. The bathroom keeps moving. The staircase keeps adding and losing steps. A parrot broadcasts every incriminating thing she's ever muttered to herself, in her voice, usually in public. And the suitcase she puts in the car keeps putting itself back in the house.
And then there's Sam Briggs, the third-generation farmer who almost sold her tomatoes at Saturday market, watched her turn them into sunflowers, and said, "I think we're past money." Sam has deep roots in Fairhaven. Sam grows things on purpose. Sam is the exact kind of man a woman like Kit should not be noticing, and her magic keeps closing the distance whether she gave it permission or not.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, the coven's Sunday dinners, and a teenage accomplice named Iris who's decided Kit and Sam are her personal project, Kit has to figure out whether transformation has to mean destruction, before the house, the magic, and the man all make the decision for her.
Flight Risk & Broomsticks is Book 6 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've been running their whole lives and are ready to find out what happens when they stop. Expect magical property transformation, chaotic hot flashes, a parrot with questionable loyalty, found family that won't take no for an answer, and a slow-burn romance with a man who waits for real answers.
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She's been a bartender in Austin, a real estate agent in Savannah, a yoga instructor in Sedona for three months, a food truck owner in Portland with regulars who learned her name, and a corporate trainer in Charlotte for two years that felt like a prison sentence. Everything Kit owns fits in two suitcases and a duffel bag. That's on purpose.
Then her great-aunt Mabel left her a 1940s colonial on Pine Street in Fairhaven, Virginia, and the plan was simple. Flip it, sell it, leave. Three weeks, tops.
Five weeks in, Kit has failed to leave twice.
Her rental car keeps downgrading by the week. Her phone charger is a rotary cord. The house is mid-century modern by morning and Victorian by afternoon, and every buyer who walks through sees a different property. The bathroom keeps moving. The staircase keeps adding and losing steps. A parrot broadcasts every incriminating thing she's ever muttered to herself, in her voice, usually in public. And the suitcase she puts in the car keeps putting itself back in the house.
And then there's Sam Briggs, the third-generation farmer who almost sold her tomatoes at Saturday market, watched her turn them into sunflowers, and said, "I think we're past money." Sam has deep roots in Fairhaven. Sam grows things on purpose. Sam is the exact kind of man a woman like Kit should not be noticing, and her magic keeps closing the distance whether she gave it permission or not.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, the coven's Sunday dinners, and a teenage accomplice named Iris who's decided Kit and Sam are her personal project, Kit has to figure out whether transformation has to mean destruction, before the house, the magic, and the man all make the decision for her.
Flight Risk & Broomsticks is Book 6 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've been running their whole lives and are ready to find out what happens when they stop. Expect magical property transformation, chaotic hot flashes, a parrot with questionable loyalty, found family that won't take no for an answer, and a slow-burn romance with a man who waits for real answers.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Midlife witch romance with actual laughs
Inherited magical houses that won't behave
Opposites attract slow burn (the runner and the rooted)
Small-town magic and nosy neighbors
Grumpy-meets-gracious quietly capable love interests
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