Fun Halloween Reads for Scaredy Cats

by Quan Barry

Nearly three centuries after their coastal community’s witch trials, the women athletes of the 1989 Danvers Falcons hockey team combine individual and collective talents with 1980s iconography to storm their way to the state finals.

by Erin Sterling

Two business rivals, witch Gwyn Jones and Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow, after one magical kiss, are determined to stay away from each other until they must work together to figure out what a new coven of witches wants and how to restore Gwyn’s waning powers.

by Rachel Harrison

After being dumped and needing a new start, Annie accepts a job teaching in a picturesque town in Upstate New York, where she befriends the enchanting Sophie, who seems to frighten the townsfolk and just might be a witch.

by Sangu Mandanna

Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic and, as she gets close to the House’s residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn’t know she was looking for.

by Elizabeth Bass

Forbidden to perform magic after their grandfather’s spell causes a catastrophe, Gwen Engel must act fast when her cousin Trudy accidentally enchants some cupcakes, wreaking havoc on unsuspecting customers in her upstate New York bakery. 

by Celestine Martin

When she accidentally hexes herself and is suddenly unable to say no, Lucy Caraway, living in a magical seaside town, agrees to help her high school crush unjinx his new house and discovers that love is the trickiest spell of all.

by Liz Parker

Known for their magical shadow garden, three empathic witches of the Haywood family are pitted against their rivals, the Bonner family, when events from a fateful summer long ago come to light, exposing their town’s terrible secrets—and the true nature of their powers.

by C. M. Waggoner

Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent again. Then she sees the "wanted" sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins.

by Hazel Beck

When an ancient evil awakens in her hometown of St. Cyprian, Missouri, witch Emerson, coming into her powers, has little time to explore these powers or her blossoming relationship with a childhood friend since she is tasked with saving the town and everything she loves.

by Kate Scelsa

Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft. After losing her best friend and first love, she has spent the past year in a haze. But when a handwritten guide to tarot arrives in the mail, it seems to bring with it the message that magic is about to enter her life.  Eleanor is quick to dismiss this promise until real-life witch Pix shows up with an unusual invitation. Inspired by the magic and mystery of the tarot, Eleanor decides to open herself up to Pix and her coven of witches, and even to the possibility of a new romance.

by April Asher

Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. But when they are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time. When old feelings make a reappearance—along with Violet’s magic—they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again.

by Bianca Marais

To save Moonshyne Manor and Distillery from demolition, five octogenarian witches, having only nine days save their home, make a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they’ve ever faced, fracturing their sisterhood and leading to a fiery confrontation with their enemies.