Sometimes Rachel Johnson feels like her life has gone full circle and there’s nowhere left to go.
She retreated to her small Pacific Northwest hometown after her 15-year marriage broke up. She lives in her parents’ house—they’re in Arizona—right next door to her childhood best friend, who is living in her parents’ house.
She can’t even look forward to empty nest syndrome because her stepdaughter followed her back to Chickadee Falls, WA and now attends nursing school at the local community college, though she lives off campus in a houseful of misfits where nobody cooks. Or cleans. Or even washes their sheets more than once every month or two.
But since meeting the enigmatic Peyton Buchanan on Halloween, Rachel’s life has gotten a lot more interesting.
For one thing, he knows she’s a witch. For another, she knows he’s a vampire.
It’s…complicated.
And things get even more complicated when her elderly great aunt ends up dead but the corpse in the morgue barely looks like a teenager. With a demon, a Norn, a vampire FBI agent, and a very grim grimoire, it's no wonder the local chief of police is looking at Rachel sideways.
Born in Washington, D.C., Katherine Moore now lives in a small Pacific Northwest town very much like Silver Birch where she sets most of her stories. She has worked as a food writer, a caterer, and a movie extra as well as a freelance lifestyle reporter and staff writer for magazines in Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Richmond, Virginia.
An enjoyable read, if a bit short, but as I read it on KU I’m not complaining! Well written with only a couple of editorial errors that didn’t really detract from my reading. Likeable characters, tho the potential romance between Rachel and Peyton seems to have ended before it started, which I’m a bit perplexed about. I’m glad I read the prequel and although it feels like not a huge amount happens in this instalment, I’m intrigued to see where Rachel’s story goes in the next book and am hoping more depth and expansion of both characters and storyline 😊
The characters were awesome. I loved reading and getting to know each character within the story.
The storyline, I felt had some holes in it that didn't explain a whole lot and I felt like some parts needed more explaining. I have a few unanswered questions but maybe as the books progress, we will get more answers. Otherwise it's a great storyline with a great plot twist. I highly recommend it!!