A romance with a knit and a purl instead of a twist: Chloe Hobbs, owner
of Sticks and Strings in picture-perfect Sugar Maple, VT. A nice normal
beginning, you might say...and then the fun begins. Sugar Maple flies
below the crime and police radar because it has no crime...and no births
or deaths, either. There's magic in the air, on the roads, and it
blows the roof off Chloe's house at one point. Super-model-hot Suzanne
Marsden shows up at Sticks and Strings front windows in a nude dress,
not a good idea in mid-winter; she's dead the next morning, (and not
from exposure) dragged from the town pond. Handsome (what else?) Luke
MacKenzie, Boston cop, arrives on a temporary assignment to investigate
Suzanne's murder. A human in Sugar Maple? A power struggle erupts
between magickless Chloe and mind-bogglingly gorgeous but deadly
Isadora who seeks the Hobbs's Book of Spells so she can control the
town. So many plots, so much believable action (Britton can charm you
with the magick action as surely as if she were more than just a writing
wizard), and an explosion-filled finale. This romance/ mystery gets an 4
from me, and I'll seek out more of Bretton's tales when I want a fun,
easy read.
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