In this slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers Southern Gothic fantasy, award-winning author Laura Holt weaves witchcraft, folklore, and forbidden tension into a haunting tale of memory and magic.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried…

When I fled Bristol’s Edge, I promised myself I’d never step foot on this cursed island again. Not after the night the wells turned on me. Not after the town branded me a liar. Not after Sutton Fray looked at me like I’d ruined everything.

But destiny and death have their own way of calling you home.

I return only to bury my mother, but the island is worse than I left it. The wells are dry, the magic is starving, and people are going missing again. The first was Holden Fray, the boy I once loved. And his brother Sutton, now the chief of police, greets me with the same cold suspicion he wore the night I ran.

He wants answers. I want nothing to do with him.

But this town—its dark magic, its hungry spirits, its secrets older than the mountains—refuses to let either of us walk away.

The deeper I’m pulled into the mystery, the more Sutton shadows my steps, demanding truths I can’t give and offering help I don’t want. We clash at every turn: over the past, over the wells, over the magic that threads between us like a live wire. He’s the last person I should trust, but the only one who seems to understand the danger closing in.

Something in the depths remembers me. And it wants me back.

A Spell of Shadows is an adult Southern Gothic fantasy steeped in Appalachian folk magic, small-town dark secrets, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance tangled with grief, guilt, and a history neither Kalon nor Sutton can outrun. Perfect for fans of Shea Ernshaw, Alix E. Harrow, and The Wicked Deep.

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