Something Borrowed Something Brewed
(2026)(A book in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series)
A Story by Ivy Spellman
Patti has fed nine women through nine awakenings, nine courtships, and nine happy endings. She has never once sat down at any of the tables.
Thirty years behind the counter of the Fairhaven Diner. Twelve stools, nine booths, a 4:15 alarm, cream stirred to the color of a paper bag. Service is her love language and her body armor, and the armor has a body count of exactly one: the man she sent away twenty-seven years ago with a lie about what she wanted. He took the music life she shoved him toward. She took the diner. She has been telling herself that was practical ever since.
Then, three weeks before the biggest wedding the coven has ever thrown, her hot flashes wake up a magic with exactly one opinion: the server is done serving.
The coffee pot pours her cups nobody asked for. Her own chair pulls out. The best booth reserves itself. The pastry case takes sides. And every time Miles Thorpe — back in town to ready his late mother's house for sale, eating breakfast at her counter like three decades is negotiable — every time that man smiles at her, the magic escalates. Champagne corks fire across the vineyard barn. The seating chart rearranges itself. The bouquet toss will not, physically will not, go to anyone else.
Nothing is keeping Miles in Fairhaven. The house is listed. The truck starts. There's no spell, no binding, no snowed-in cabin. He can leave whenever he wants, which means the only thing that would make him stay is the one thing Patti has never once done in thirty years of what-can-I-get-you:
Ask.
Something Borrowed, Something Brewed is a Christmas novella in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series — a complete second-chance romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after, closed-door heat, the entire Fairhaven coven at one snow-globe of a wedding, and a toast from Margaret that nobody who has read this series will want to miss. It stands on its own, and it is the perfect nightcap after the series finale.
Perfect for readers who love:
Thirty years behind the counter of the Fairhaven Diner. Twelve stools, nine booths, a 4:15 alarm, cream stirred to the color of a paper bag. Service is her love language and her body armor, and the armor has a body count of exactly one: the man she sent away twenty-seven years ago with a lie about what she wanted. He took the music life she shoved him toward. She took the diner. She has been telling herself that was practical ever since.
Then, three weeks before the biggest wedding the coven has ever thrown, her hot flashes wake up a magic with exactly one opinion: the server is done serving.
The coffee pot pours her cups nobody asked for. Her own chair pulls out. The best booth reserves itself. The pastry case takes sides. And every time Miles Thorpe — back in town to ready his late mother's house for sale, eating breakfast at her counter like three decades is negotiable — every time that man smiles at her, the magic escalates. Champagne corks fire across the vineyard barn. The seating chart rearranges itself. The bouquet toss will not, physically will not, go to anyone else.
Nothing is keeping Miles in Fairhaven. The house is listed. The truck starts. There's no spell, no binding, no snowed-in cabin. He can leave whenever he wants, which means the only thing that would make him stay is the one thing Patti has never once done in thirty years of what-can-I-get-you:
Ask.
Something Borrowed, Something Brewed is a Christmas novella in the Hot Flashes & Hexes series — a complete second-chance romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after, closed-door heat, the entire Fairhaven coven at one snow-globe of a wedding, and a toast from Margaret that nobody who has read this series will want to miss. It stands on its own, and it is the perfect nightcap after the series finale.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Second-chance Christmas romance with a twenty-seven-year-old lie at the center
Midlife witch romcom where the magical mishaps hijack a wedding
The woman who can't receive, dropped into the season of giving
A quiet hero who could leave — and the question of whether he'll choose to stay
Found family, closed-door heat, and a happy ending you can count on
A complete story you can finish in one snowy evening
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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