In this slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers Southern Gothic fantasy, award-winning author Laura Holt weaves witchcraft, folklore, and forbidden tension into a haunting tale of memory and magic.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried...

When I fled Bristol's Edge, I promised myself I'd never step foot on this cursed island again. Not after the night the wells turned on me. Not after the town branded me a liar. Not after Sutton Fray looked at me like I'd ruined everything.

But destiny and death have their own way of calling you home.

I return only to bury my mother, but the island is worse than I left it. The wells are dry, the magic is starving, and people are going missing again. The first was Holden Fray, the boy I once loved. And his brother Sutton, now the chief of police, greets me with the same cold suspicion he wore the night I ran.

He wants answers. I want nothing to do with him.

But this town-its dark magic, its hungry spirits, its secrets older than the mountains-refuses to let either of us walk away.

The deeper I'm pulled into the mystery, the more Sutton shadows my steps, demanding truths I can't give and offering help I don't want. We clash at every turn: over the past, over the wells, over the magic that threads between us like a live wire. He's the last person I should trust, but the only one who seems to understand the danger closing in.

Something in the depths remembers me. And it wants me back.

A Spell of Shadows is an adult Southern Gothic fantasy steeped in Appalachian folk magic, small-town dark secrets, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance tangled with grief, guilt, and a history neither Kalon nor Sutton can outrun. Perfect for fans of Shea Ernshaw, Alix E. Harrow, and The Wicked Deep.