Nice Girls Finish Hexed
(2026)(The fifth book in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series)
A novel by Ivy Spellman
Ellie Whitfield has been the nicest woman in Fairhaven for as long as anyone can remember. Nobody ever asked her to be. She just was.
She runs the historical society for free. She organizes the PTA spring fundraiser seven years after her son graduated. She smiles while Barbara Houghton's dry lemon bars make their annual appearance and addresses birthday cards to "Dear Friend" because she forgot one woman's name eleven years ago and it's too late to ask now. Ellie has a master's degree she's never mentioned, an ex-husband she finally walked out on after twenty-three years, and four pages of to-do lists that don't contain a single item for herself.
Then a hot flash hits during a town council meeting, the walls of the community room go translucent, and Ellie stands at the microphone to inform Councilman Peters that his historic preservation plan is architecturally illiterate.
Things escalate from there.
Ellie's new magic reveals what's been painted over. Three layers of wallpaper. Water damage nobody fixed. Old letters she never sent. A refrigerator with strong opinions. A great-aunt's fountain pen that writes truths she spent forty years swallowing. And Owen Hale, the quiet man restoring the old hardware store across the street, the one with the capable hands Ellie definitely hasn't been noticing for four months, is apparently the only person in Fairhaven who actually wants to hear what she thinks.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, the coven's Sunday dinners, and an elderly golden retriever named Biscuit whose mystical commute remains unexplained, Ellie has to figure out the difference between revealing the truth and weaponizing it, before her magic uncovers something nobody can cover back up.
Nice Girls Finish Hexed is Book 5 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've spent too many years pretending everything is fine. Expect magical property damage, chaotic hot flashes, a golden retriever with better judgment than most of the humans around him, found family at fifty-something, and a slow-burn romance that earns every soft landing.
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She runs the historical society for free. She organizes the PTA spring fundraiser seven years after her son graduated. She smiles while Barbara Houghton's dry lemon bars make their annual appearance and addresses birthday cards to "Dear Friend" because she forgot one woman's name eleven years ago and it's too late to ask now. Ellie has a master's degree she's never mentioned, an ex-husband she finally walked out on after twenty-three years, and four pages of to-do lists that don't contain a single item for herself.
Then a hot flash hits during a town council meeting, the walls of the community room go translucent, and Ellie stands at the microphone to inform Councilman Peters that his historic preservation plan is architecturally illiterate.
Things escalate from there.
Ellie's new magic reveals what's been painted over. Three layers of wallpaper. Water damage nobody fixed. Old letters she never sent. A refrigerator with strong opinions. A great-aunt's fountain pen that writes truths she spent forty years swallowing. And Owen Hale, the quiet man restoring the old hardware store across the street, the one with the capable hands Ellie definitely hasn't been noticing for four months, is apparently the only person in Fairhaven who actually wants to hear what she thinks.
Between Margaret's no-nonsense mentoring, the coven's Sunday dinners, and an elderly golden retriever named Biscuit whose mystical commute remains unexplained, Ellie has to figure out the difference between revealing the truth and weaponizing it, before her magic uncovers something nobody can cover back up.
Nice Girls Finish Hexed is Book 5 in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series, a cozy paranormal romcom for women who've spent too many years pretending everything is fine. Expect magical property damage, chaotic hot flashes, a golden retriever with better judgment than most of the humans around him, found family at fifty-something, and a slow-burn romance that earns every soft landing.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Midlife witch romance with actual laughs
Small-town magic and nosy neighbors
Grumpy-meets-gracious slow burn with a quietly capable love interest
Strong women finding their voices after half a century of good manners
Cozy paranormal rom coms you can finish in a weekend
Each Hot Flashes & Hexes book stands alone. But Fairhaven's coven keeps expanding, and once you've been invited to Sunday dinner, you won't want to leave.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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