Halloween. One ghost. Six hours until the witching hour.

All Lexi Balefire wants is a quiet Samhain ? a bowl of candy, a bad movie, and no magical emergencies. Her familiars have gone to a party. Her grandmother and aunt are off on a beach trip. The house is hers.

Then something starts banging around upstairs, and Lexi finds a ghost sitting in her sanctum, waiting.

The dead witch has been stuck since her funeral, when half her soul caught in the pendant around Lexi's neck. She can't move on until her unfinished business is finished ? a family talisman returned to its rightful keeper, a lost ring recovered from a lonely stretch of road, and a mother who never got to say goodbye.

The veil is thin tonight. It won't stay that way. And if they don't get through the list before midnight, Lexi has a permanent houseguest.

A tender, spooky-season cozy fantasy novella set directly after Book 4 of the complete seven-book Fate Weaver series. Reads perfectly on its own. Clean and closed-door.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Ghosts with unfinished business and impeccable manners • Broom flights across small-town Maine at midnight • A goodbye that lands harder than you expect • Halloween cozies with a warm heart under the spooky • A complete story in one sitting

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I did not expect a Halloween short to make me cry. It absolutely did."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Funny and sad in the same breath. Exactly what I want from these two."