Halloween Rom Com Books for 2024

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The Celeste sisters make the best apple cider in Maine (thanks to a magical secret ingredient), but even that might not be enough to keep the family orchard afloat. Desperate for money to save the orchard, Holly agrees to let a ghost hunting series film an episode on the property.

While the whole country is enamored with Connor Grimm, the handsome host of the TV show, Holly fears the unwanted exposure. Connor is looking for more than ghosts at Wicked Good Apples. He’s also looking for answers to the rumors surrounding the farm, including rain during droughts and other unexplicable happenings. Connor hopes to expose the supernatural elements of the orchard in order to take the success of his TV show to the next level.

As he interviews eyewitnesses and hunts for old records, he unocvers a story that even Holly didn’t know existed. Against her self-preservation insticts, Holly can’t deny her feelings for Connor. When he figures out her biggest secret, he’ll have to decide whether revealing his biggest paranormal discover is worth it after all.

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Socially awkward, plant-loving, sweater vest-wearing Ben doesn’t fit the werewolf stereotype. He’s trying to manage the success of his Plant Emporium with his anxiety-inducing beastly urges every full moon. Add to that the pressure his family is putting him to finally settle down now that he’s forty.

After a late-night, drunken bid on Ebay, Ben finds himself the owner of a supposedly-possessed crystal. Then he finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful but angry vampire.

Thanks to an evil witch, Eleanora has been stuck in a crystal since midieval times, forced to obey orders from the possessor of the rock. She’s understandably angry at the witch that’s been controlling her all these years, but now she’s equally ticked off that the witch sold her to someone new for only ninety-nine cents.

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Delphie is recently deceased, having choked on a microwavable burger. Finding herself in the afterlife waiting room wearing her “sparkle and shine” nightie is embarrassing enough to start with, but to make matters worse, she comes face to face with the hottest man she’s ever seen.

He smiles… they chat… there seems to be a spark… But then someone runs in shouting about a huge mistake and sends the dreamy man back down to Earth.

When Delphie is offered an opportunity to return to Earth for 10 days to reconnect with her mystery man, she jumps at the chance to find her possible soulmate. But finding him in a city of millions won’t be easy.

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Mika is one of only a few witches in England, so she tries to keep a low profile. This also means avoiding other witches so their powers don’t intersect. She’s a lonely rule-follower in every aspect of her life except one. She posts online “pretending” to be a witch.

She thinks everyone will assume it’s a joke, but then she receives a letter begging her to travel to the remote Nowhere House to help three young witches control their magic. When she arrives, she finds that her new housemates aren’t just the young girls. There’s also a handsome, but protective, librarian named Jaime, an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, and two long-suffering caretakers.

Mika didn’t travel to the house to find a relationship or a new family, but could she have stumbled into both?

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Constance is a yes-woman. She loans her best friend money, takes on extra responsibilities at work without a raise, and then says yes again when her boyfriend, Hayden, proposes. Outside of work and her relationship, Constance is an active volunteer at the local animal shelter. When she was younger, she planned to be a veterinarian but then switched gears to become a paralegal after her father was convicted of murder.

As Constance plans her wedding, she’s filled with anxiety about the future. She finds a great distraction when she begins researching the history of her antique engagement ring. When she finds the name of a WW1 soldier connected to the ring, she hopes to discover his story. At the library, she uncovers letters written by the long-dead man. She’s so touched that she journals a note back to him confessing her doubts.

When she returns to the library to continue reading, she’s shocked to find a note back from the long-dead man. The letters continue, and soon she’s falling in love with a ghost at the potential expense of her current relationship.

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Cheerful Penny loves pumpkin spice and everything else about fall too, with Halloween being her absolute favorite. Her hometown of Harrogate is the original Halloween town. She should be thrilled to be returning home, but she can’t get over the sense of failure that she’s only coming back because her journalism career in Manhattan didn’t work out.

Billionaire Garrett despises pumpkins, Halloween, and the overwhelming sense of dread as the cold and damp move in. When his new chauffeur arrives for her first day, she’s driving a hearse with Halloween carols booming.

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October did not go well for Sirena. She ex-celebrity chef, not to mention a witch, but her cooking powers are on the fritz. She did get the career-saving job she was up for, and then she embarrassed herself at the town’s Halloween party.

She makes a desperate wish for a second chance and wakes up the next mornign to realize that she’s restarting the entire month. This time around, October is looking much better thanks to Gus Dearworth. The former reality star has moved to Freya Grove to rebuild his reputation and heal his heartache, but his restless magic keeps drawing him back toward the spotlight.

Gus has a crush on Sirena, so he makes her a deal that ensures they can spend more time together… if she agrees to help her decipher a mysterious cookbook in his collection, he’ll help fix her magical powers.

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This paranormal romance features a dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf.

Misery Lark is the daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, but she’s also an outcast. After years of living anonymously among the humans, she’s now required to uphold an important peacekeeping alliance.

The Weres and the Vampyres are mortal enemies, but Misery must enter into an arranged marriage. She agrees, but her reasons have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the only thing she’s ever cared about. She’ll do anything to get back what rightfully belongs to her even if it means living alone in Were territory.

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Penny has always wanted nothing more than to work for a witch. She joined the Society of Familiars as soon as she was old enough, but no one is hiring. When she’s offered and under the table opportunity to apprentice for a forbidden warlock, she agrees.

Willem is banned from having a familiar due to his past transgressions, and the subsequent limits on his spell-casting.

Willem is as surly as Penny is enthusiastic, which does not make an ideal warlock/familiar combination, but they must work together to catch a common enemy. If the ploy requires a little kissing on the side, who’s to question the rules of magic?

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Sabrina is not happy to be returning home to the Wisconsin Dells, otherwise known as the Waterpark Capital of the World. But it’s not the town she’s been avoiding. It’s the Monroe family curse. The women in her family can see spirits who need help with unfinished business. The only ghost Sabrina doesn’t mind is Molly, who is bubbly, loves rom coms, and was a great friend to Sabrina throughout her childhood.

Ray is a charming restauranteur who invites Sabrina to his supper club. While it’s not terrible that he’s flirting with her over Brandy Old Fashioneds, she is much more concerned with getting a job than a boyfriend. Although, Ray’s kindness toward rescue dogs and talent in the kitchen are nice bonuses on top of his handsomeness.

Sabrina is still worried about the spirits that follow her, but maybe with Ray, she could find joy.

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Practical Magic, published in 1995, was a popular bewitching novel that was adapted into a 1998 film by the same name starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. More than two and a half decades later, we now have the conclusion to the story of the Owens women.

For more than 300 years, the Owens family has been cursed in maters of love. A frantic attempt to finally break the curse will take three generations of the Owens women from Paris to London to the English countryside. The younger Owens generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love.

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In a fight for visitor dollars, Boneyard Key decided long ago to lean into ghost tourism. Nick, the owner of Hallowed Grounds coffee shop, for example, embraces his ghostly roommate.

When all of Cassie’s friends in Orlando started marrying and having kids, she flees the city in search of her own adventure. She buys a flipped historic cottage in Boneyard Key, but quickly discovers taht things aren’t quite right. The outlets don’t work and the magnetic poetry on her fridge spells out unwelcoming messages. Despite all this, she’s charmed by the town and by the grumpy coffee shop owner who slips her free banana bread.

Nick takes her on a ghost tour of town and begins sharing gossip that they don’t tell the tourists. Soon he’s helping her research the former owners of her haunted cottage. Will she be scared away for good?

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Eight years ago, Sage Flores’ sister passed away. She’s been on the run from her family’s unique “gifts” ever since. When she finally returns to their hometown, Sage takes a job that uses her ability to communicate with plants and helps discover unique specimens in the land surrounding town.

Her partner at work is Tennessee, who broke her heart in high school. It doesn’t take long for her old feelings to come back to the surface. But how could she have time for romance with plants to find, a dead sister who brings her coffee, and another sister whose anger comes out in lightning?

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In 1806, a young bride was murdered on her wedding night. As her gold wedding is torn from Astrid’s finger, her last words are a vow to Collin that she’ll never leave him.

In present day, graphic designer Sonya is surprised to learn that her late father had a twin brother that he never knew about. And now the uncle she never knew has left her his grand Victorian home on the coast of Maine. The will, however, stipulates that she must live there for three years.Fresh off of a broken engagement, Sonya decides to seek answers as to why her father and uncle were seperated at birth.

When she arrives at the clifftop home in Maine, the lawyer in charge of executing the will acknowledges that house is haunted… but just a little. Objects move on their own and music plays out of no where, but even more mysterious is a painting by her father that hangs in her uncle’s office. There’s also a portrait of Astrid, whom the lawyer explains is “the first lost bride.”

Sonya has inherited more than a house… she’s also inherited a centuries old curse and a puzzle to solve if she hopes to break it.

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Fresh off a break-up and after ignoring her magic for years, Isobel is ready to rekindle her inner witch. When she inherits a magical house in the seaside village of Charming Cove, she thinks it’s exactly the thing to turn her life around. Unfortunately, the house is currently uninhabitable.

She must renovate within the next 30 days, or she’ll lose the house. To complicate matters, the house hates anyone who enters and attacks with loose floorboards and rancid odors.

No contractor in town is willing to touch the house, so her only hope is to convince a brooding, boat-building werewolf to help her figure out why the property is so moody.

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In the Scottish Highlands, the heir of Cavendish House, a medieval Scottish castle, is looking for a house sitter. Corrine thinks taking the job is the perfect opportunity to not only stay on an amazing estate but to be close to her Scottish Skype buddy, Christopher.

However, when she arrives, the castle is a mess. Ivy has taken over the outside. The inside is still filled with the contents of the deceased owner…and he was a hoarder. The mess isn’t the only surprise waiting for Corrine. The house is already inhabited by the handsome, but stubborn, heir named Branson.

Branson doesn’t want Corrine in the house, but he also needs help making the house inhabitable before it’s auctioned off to the highest bidder. He’s desperate to save the castle and keep it in the family. This will be even harder than they expect as it turns out the house is a bit haunted.

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Petra has built her dream career in the Pre-Revolutionary American History department of Boston’s Bishop College. But to her dismay, students seem to only want to learn amount Puritanical culture when it involves the trendy and glamourized versions of witch stories, and now the dean is theatening to shut her department down.

In an effort to save her job and engage her students, Petra sets out up the coast of New England to research the witch trials and witchcraft first hand.

In a quaint small town in Maine, her academic search uncovers more than she bargained for and she unexpectedly lands at the cetner of a murder investigation.

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Hattie’s mom is the stern headmaster at Northanger Abbey High School, which is said to be the most haunted school in the United States. The school leans into the reputation, even offering ghost-hunting scholarships. Hattie used to enjoy ghost hunting with her father, but since he passed away, she no longer believes in ghosts and instead is focused on being an overachiever to get her busy mom’s attention, all while keeping her little brother in line.

When Hattie is partnered with a new student, Kit, to investigate the school’s paranormal activity, she’s ready to prove that ghosts aren’t real. But the more time she spends with Kit, the more she feels like she’s ready to believe in life again.

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The Savoie sisters are witches living in New Orleans. Evie Savoie spends her days working at The Cauldron, the bar owned by her oldest sister, Jules, and at Mystic Maybelle’s, the shop owned by her sister, Clara.

One day a moody and volatile werewolf walks into the bar. Unable to shift for three months, Mateo is fighting against the violent and carnal thoughts of the wolf in his head. The house rules of the Savoie sisters’ coven dictate “no werewolves,” so Evie’s first inclination is to bounce him out of the bar. But she sees the desperation in Mateo’s eyes and agrees to help him break the hex.

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Ezra sees ghosts. And growing up in a funeral home, there were lots of ghosts to see. Ezra is also transgendered, and the ghosts of his judging, disapproving relatives cause him to run as far from the family business as possible.

After his mother announces at Passover seder that she’s running away with the rabbi’s wife, Ezra feels he has no choice but to return home and help save the struggling Friedman Family Memorial Chapel. Even if it means spending his days surrounded by ghosts.

When Ezra develops a crush on Jonathan, a handsome new funeral home volunteer, Ezra is also faced with the ghost of Jonathan’s gone-too-soon husband, Ben.

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The Avramovs are one of four families that help maintain the balance of magic in Thistle Grove. Dasha Avramov takes on the most dangerous task – she is the family’s devil eater. Her constant close encounters with the dark side make it hard for her to connect with the living world, including her ex-girlfriend, Ivy.

When Dasha and Ivy are forced to work together to plan a town festival, sparks fly again. While they struggle to confront the fault lines in their past relationship, they must also stand against an otherworldly threat unlike anything the town has faced before.

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Scientist Maryse had a rude and manipulative mother-in-law who used her wealth to rule the small town of Mudbug. Maryse thought when Helena passed away, her life would get easier, and she could finally divorce the husband she had been estranged from. Unfortunately, death didn’t slow down Helena, and she’s still now she’s haunting Maryse in a new way.

DEA agent Luc has been sent to investigate why someone would want to kill a sexy scientist named Maryse. As he tries to protect her from harm, keeping his own secrets gets harder as he gets to know the brainy beauty.

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Olive is the “youngest” of the Maxwell witch triplets. She typically prefers teaching about the supernatural world, leaving the magical shenanigans to her sisters. But after assigning her students a project to nudge them outside their comfort zone, she realizes that she’s barely even put a toe over the line.

But when she finally does, she goes big… she moves in with her long-time crush, the motorcycle-riding and pierced Baxter. She has a “Dare I” list and is suddenly eager to start checking off heart-pounding stunts.

Bax is a guardian angel with a lot of black marks on his record. In order to keep his wings, he’s been given one final assignment. While rule-following Olive would typically be a low-risk assignment, she’s suddenly embracing her inner daredevil.

Will Bax be able to protect Olive without breaking the only Guardian Angel Code of Code—don’t fall in love with your Assignment.

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Tara is the town psychic – except she’s not really psychic at all. In fact she doesn’t believe in the supernatural at all. But when her elderly aunt had a “ghost problem,” she moved into the guest house to “help.” It would be a good arrangement if not for the grumpy (but hot) guy next door. Ward’s family has been feuding with Tara’s family for centuries over land.

But suddenly, Ward needs a favor. He shows up at Tara’s fortunate-telling book at the town’s fall festival begging her to fake date him until Halloween. In exchange, he agrees to give her aunt the land she wants.

Tara agrees, and soon it seems there’s a force trying to push them together… Spooky calls, phantom cold spots that have her seeking Ward’s warmth, and visions of people who aren’t there that scare her straight into his arms.

She surprised to realize that she might just be falling for Ward… and that her aunt might have a ghost problem after all.

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Fans of mysteries and southern romance will love this ghost story set in New Orleans. Nola has purchased her first fixer-upper, but she has an unexpected problem when the former owners don’t seem ready to leave. Nola didn’t understand her stepmother’s ability to communicate with ghosts, but she knows someone else in town who can.

But she hoped to never see Beau Ryan again. He has a dark past, including the disappearance of his parents and sister during Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, Nola believes he is the only one who can help her solve the mystery of the restless spirits in her house.