Spells for Forgetting

Emery Blackwood runs her family's shop, Blackwood's Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings, on Saoirse Island, a misty and remote place steeped in folklore and magic. It is the quiet life her teenage self swore she would never lead. Fourteen years ago her best friend, Lily Morgan, was found dead in the woods, and Emery's great love, August Salt, was branded her murderer.

The island starts to behave strangely, and Emery senses something coming. One morning every tree on Saoirse has changed color overnight. That same day August comes home for the first time since the night of Lily's death, when a fire tore through his family's orchard.

He returns to bury his mother's ashes, knowing nobody wants him there. He has to face the neighbors who turned on him, and he has to face Emery, the one wound that never closed. The town has more than one reason to want him gone, and old betrayals and promises that reach back through generations begin to surface.

The book is an atmospheric mystery with a romance at its center, built on ancestral magic and a murder that was never solved. Fog, folklore, a close community and a past that refuses to stay buried shape the mood. Reading it means following a second chance at love alongside a slow unraveling of what happened to Lily.