17 Witchy Rom Com Books for Halloween

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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 seeking answers to the rumors surrounding the farm, including reports of rain during droughts and other unexplained occurrences. 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 uncovers a story that even Holly didn’t know existed. Against her self-preservation instincts, 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 discovery is worth it after all.

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In foggy Prince Edward Island, overextended mom Cassie Beckett is limping into October with a rebellious sister, three rambunctious kids, and an absent husband. Her life feels anything but magical… until vampires descend on her quiet town.

As attacks rattle the island, Cassie is confronted with a long-ignored family secret. It turns out that she is the “witch of her generation” despite her noticeable lack of magical powers. What she does have is a deadline. She must clear the island of vampires before Halloween night.

Teaming up with quirky locals (and a baby in a gloriously garlicky onesie), Cassie is forced to learn on the fly. She juggles school pickups with midnight patrols, crash-course spellwork, and a showdown she never asked for. As the clock ticks toward Halloween, she must try to finish what past generations of witches started.

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In the 17th century, Thorn Scarhart is a 39-year-old witch looking for love. She has the help of a local matchmaker and her own collection of love potions, but still she’s single. She fears that her chance at love may have passed her by.

When one of her potion brews goes awry, she finds herself 350 years in the future. Her once-isolated cottage is now a historical museum in the heart of a bustling city. This sudden time leap is daunting, but modern life has some perks, including indoor plumbing, electric kettles, and online dating. Maybe it’s not too late for her to find love after all!

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Penelope has been picked as a contestant on a spellcasting reality TV show called Cast Judgment. To up the ante this season, every contestant will be paired with a celebrity teammate – or a Spellebrity, if you will. Unfortunately, Penelope has been partnered with Leandro Prestor, who’s better known for his viral goofy videos rather than his actual spellcasting skills.

What Penelope doesn’t know is that Leandro is actually the alias of Gil Contreras, her pen pal, who also happens to have a big crush on her. Additionally, Gil really needs the substantial cash prize offered to the winners, as it could help save his grandfather’s charity. But the show requires him to stay in character as Leandro, which means his dream girl will continue to see him as a total loser.

Can they find a way to win the competition, and can he find a way to win her heart?

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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 matters 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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Violet Thistlewaite used to be the Thornwitch, the right-hand to notorious sorcerer Guy Shadowfade. But now she’s done being a villain. She slips into the small town of Dragon’s Rest to start over.

As a plant witch, it’s natural for her to open a flower shop where she can reinvent herself as someone kind who welcomes the townsfolk with her vibrant blooms. But nothing she does seems to win over the grumpy-but-brilliant alchemist named Nathaniel Marsh who shares her greenhouse. And she’s also struggling to keep her sentient, mildly homicidal houseplant from causing trouble.

When a mysterious blight starts killing every plant in town, Violet and Nathaniel are forced into an uneasy partnership to trace the source and stop it before the community withers. As customers flock to Violet’s cheerful enchantments, a figure from her past reappears and threatens to expose the secrets she’s tried to bury. Will they uproot the fragile new life she’s building?

Series Summary

This series begins with a curse that Vivienne Jones jokingly cast on her ex-boyfriend, Rhys Penhallow. She never expected it to work… but it did. Nine years later, Rhys returns to their small Southern hometown, Graves Glen, to help charge the ley lines at the annual Founder’s Day festival. But misfortune strikes, and every mishap hints that Vivi’s “silly little” heartbreak curse might be real.

To undo the unintended curse, Vivi, Rhys, and Vivi’s witchy cousin and aunt must channel ancestral magic—and face buried history tied to the town’s founders. Amid supernatural mayhem and witty banter, they work to break the spell and rediscover their past connection.

In the second installment, The Kiss Curse, the complications continue as the trio deals with new magical mishaps.

In the third installment, The Wedding Witch, Bowen Penhallow, a reclusive Welsh warlock, attends a Yuletide wedding at Tywyll House with a ghostly friend and unexpectedly finds himself transported back to 1950s Wales alongside magical artifact hunter Tamsyn Bligh.

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October did not go well for Sirena. She is an ex-celebrity chef, not to mention a witch, but her cooking powers are on the fritz. She didn’t 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 morning 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 her fix her magical powers.

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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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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 the town.

Her partner at work is Tennessee, who broke her heart in high school. It doesn’t take long for her old feelings to resurface. 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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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 an 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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The hidden town of Thistle Grove, Illinois, is run by four founding witch families, the Harlows, Avramovs, Thornes, and Blackmoores. Every fifty years, a spellcasting Gauntlet resets the balance of power, but rivalries, curses, and old heartbreaks continue to ignite.

Each novel in this series follows a different witch, beginning with Book 1, Payback’s a Witch, in which Emmy Harlow is pulled out of her self-imposed exile and drawn back to Thistle Grove for a spellcasting tournament. On her first night back in town, she runs into Talia Avramov who is fresh off of a bad breakup. Emmy lets herself be charmed by Talia, only to discover that Talia is also seeing Linden. Now they want to get revenge on him.

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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 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.

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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 – don’t fall in love with your Assignment?