The Witch Is Back

Emmaline "Emma" Bluewater was born into witch society, but she stopped trying to fit there seven years ago, when Bastian Truenote, the boy she had been promised to since childhood, left town just before their wedding without a word. Now she lives a contentedly ordinary human life in Chicago, running the bar Toil and Trouble with her friends and keeping company with her goofy dog familiar.

Then Bastian walks into the bar and says he wants her back. The engagement their families sealed when they were children was a binding magical contract, and walking away from it carries a price that falls on the people who witnessed it, their own parents. Bastian had his reasons for leaving, but a hex keeps him from telling Emma what they were.

So they agree to a marriage of convenience. Bastian has to win over friends who would happily hex him, a familiar with opinions, and a woman who is no longer the meek witch he remembers, while Emma is determined not to fall for him a second time.

The first book in Sophie H. Morgan's Toil and Trouble series, a second-chance paranormal romantic comedy set between Chicago and the high society of witch families.