Go Hex Yourself

Reggie Johnson answers a newspaper job ad expecting to work for Spellcraft: The Magicking, her favorite card game. The position turns out to be something else entirely: she is hired as a familiar to a real witch, in a household where the magic is real.

The terms are good. Room and board are generous, the pay is excellent, and Reggie gets to apprentice under a powerful witch. The witch is eccentric, and an incident with a black cat is something Reggie would rather not discuss.

The real trouble is Ben Magnus, a warlock and the witch's nephew. He is bossy, irritating and fond of giving Reggie orders. Reggie can admit he is handsome, and that he looks good in a crystal ball vision, but she hates him and intends to keep it that way.

Then someone with a grudge targets the household with a deadly curse. Reggie and Ben have to work together to break it, and the bickering between them starts to turn into something else. This is a romantic comedy with a light tone and a slow-burning enemies-to-lovers pairing.