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12 Witchy Rom Com Books for Halloween
By: Angela & Melissa
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As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, we may earn a referral fee from qualifying purchases.Grab your broomstick and favorite brew and cozy up with a magic-filled witchy romantic comedy book or two! These light, fun reads are perfect to get you into the spirit of the Halloween season without the fright factor.
If romance books set during the spooky season are your jam, you’ll also want to check out our longer list of Halloween Rom Coms that also includes ghosts, vampires, and werewolves.
We also invite you to join our Halloween Mini-Reading Challenge! The challenge includes three Halloween-themed reading prompts with book recommendation lists for each. Click here to read the challenge details and to download your printable reading tracker and coloring page (or join the challenge using the opt-in box at the bottom of this post).
Witch Romance Books to Read This Season
Bad Luck Charm
Book Summary
Gwen owns an occult shop in Salem that the police think is being targeted by evildoers after a small animal appears to have been sacrificed outside. She normally has a charmed life and sunny outlook, but suddenly finds herself dealing with crazed pagans, rogue employees, and nefarious henchmen.
Graham is a private investigator and police consultant who focuses on objective facts. But when Gwendolyn is in trouble, their mutual dislike suddenly begins to sizzle into something he doesn’t understand.
The Book Girls Say…
Book 2 in the series, At Last Sight, follows a reluctant clairvoyant who has been trying to keep a low profile after a childhood spent in the spotlight.
Book Summary
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.
Deja Brew
Book Summary
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.
The Book Girls Say…
This is the third book in Celestine Martin’s Elemental Love series, with each book centering around the lives of a family of Black witches in their hometown of Freya Grove.
The Book of Magic
Book Summary
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.
The Book Girls Say…
This novel brings together characters from Practical Magic as well as introducing new additions.
The Wedding Witch
Book Summary
Bowen Penhallow studies dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales and prefers the quiet solitude. But when his best friend, a ghost named Declan, invites him to attend a wedding at a grand Tywyll estate in the Welsch countryside, he reluctantly agrees.
Tamsyn is not a witch, but she makes a living procuring and selling magical items. Her business has not always been above board, but she’s been trying to fix that. Bowen is an occassional customer (as well as a frequent visitor in her dirtiest dreams). She’s managed to finagle an invite to the Withcy Wedding of the century, and she hopes that she’ll leave with at least one priceless magical artifact – that would be enough to set her up for life.
But Tamsyn isn’t the only one sneaking around Tywyll House. A very strong spell transports both Bowen and Tamsyn back to a 1957 Yuletide Celebration in the home. In order to get back to the present, they must face the history of the haunting.
The Book Girls Say…
This third book in the popular Ex Hex is a mix of Halloween and Christmas vibes, making it perfect for reads transitioning between the seasons.
Wolf Gone Wild
Book Summary
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.
The Book Girls Say…
The six novels in this series can be read as stand-alones. They are described as flirty, fun, and steamy.
Witch of Wild Things
Book Summary
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?
The Book Girls Say…
If you enjoy this novel, be sure to pick up Gilliland’s 2024 book Lightning in Her Hands, which has a continuing storyline with characters from the first book.
The author is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and painter.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Book Summary
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?
What the Hex
Book Summary
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?
The Book Girls Say…
This is the second book in the Hex series, which has slightly higher ratings than the first book, Go Hex Yourself. Some characters from the first book make an appearance in the What the Hex, so if you know you’ll want to read both novels, we recommend starting with Go Hex Yourself.
Smoke Show
Book Summary
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 about Puritanical culture when it involves the trendy and glamourized versions of witch stories, and now the dean is threatening 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 firsthand.
In a quaint small town in Maine, her academic search uncovers more than she bargained for, and she unexpectedly lands at the center of a murder investigation.
The Book Girls Say…
The mystery does not get resolved in book 1, so be prepared to keep reading. The good news is that all five books in the series are currently free with Kindle Unlimited.
The first novel introduces us to a mischievous bartender and a group of quirky locals. Each subsequent novel in the series follows a different couple.
Rise and Divine
Book Summary
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.
The Book Girls Say…
This 2024 release is rumored to be the final installment in the Witches of Thistle Grove series. While the books can be read as standalones, those who enjoy the world-building aspects of series books may want to begin with Payback’s a Witch.
Heads up that this book includes undertones of suicidal thoughts. We know this topic can be difficult for some people to read, so proceed cautiously.
Not Your Crush’s Cauldron
Book Summary
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?
The Book Girls Say…
There are three books in the Witches of Thistle Grove series, including Not the Witch You Wed. Each book follows one of the Maxwell triplets.
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