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Welcome to Pumpkin Hollow!

This little witchy town hidden away from humans in the White Mountains National Forest, situated directly in between New Hampshire and Maine, belongs to neither. It's home to supernatural creatures of all kinds, but mostly witches of every variety.

Fern Appleton is a cozy cottage witch who runs the town bookstore with her adorable tuxedo cat, Bramble. While some might say she's lonely after her parents moved away, Fern believes that it's hard to be lonely with a talking cat for a familiar. For the first time, it's entirely on Fern to decorate Petals & Pages Bookstore for Pumpkin Hollow's annual Pumpkin Festival, and she's terrified of disappointing her parents.

Sparrow Blackburne and her twin, Lark, are dream witches. It's about the only thing they have in common - Sparrow has ebony hair, while Lark is ginger. Sparrow works at the town library while Lark is a botanist. After saving Fern from falling off a ladder while decorating the bookstore, Sparrow begins to notice the pretty young witch all over town, even in her dreams. Bramble requests Sparrow & Lark to help get the bookstore ready for the festival, and the close proximity stirs up plenty of feelings.

In a town this small, it's impossible to keep secrets. Will these two fall for Lark and Bramble's matchmaking scheme?

Book Number: One

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance | LGBTQIA+ 

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Two witches who have spent years with their noses stuck in a book accidentally run into one another and catch feelings in this cozy autumnal novella. 

Fern Appleton has recently taken over running her family's bookstore and she has a lot to prep before Pumpkin Hollow's busiest season of the year hits—fall and the Pumpkin Festival. Luckily, Sparrow Blackburne volunteers to help decorate the shop with all the autumnal vibes Fern could dream of. When Sparrow’s conniving sister, Lark, and Fern’s sneaky cat familiar, Bramble, hatch a plan to set the two of them up, Fern and Sparrow have no choice but to give love a chance. 

After spending my summer basking in the rays of the “Crescent Cove” series, I knew I had to check out “Pumpkin Hollow.” Many of the authors overlap, so I was stoked when they announced this cozy witchy collection that is perfect for fall. Thank you so much to Kay Leyda for the eARC of this one! 

The vibes of Pumpkin Hollow are honestly great. If you are one of those people who live for watching the leaves turn colors, enjoying a pumpkin spice latte, or basking in the cooler weather, you should definitely give this series a try. Pumpkin Hollow is such a cozy small town and I’m really looking forward to meeting its many residents over the course of this month. 

The fact that both of our FMCs are bookish witches is super sweet. Fern owns a bookstore whereas Sparrow works at the library. I can’t say that either is central to the plot, but I don’t think any of us are complaining about more bookish content inside our reads. Also, yay for a sapphic couple to be included in a large collection like this! 

My favorite part of this one is the vibes of the Pumpkin Festival. I’m always so jealous of characters that get to experience their hometown’s fall festival, as they all sound so cute and adorable! Going on a first date at a festival such as this does sound a tad overwhelming, but it would be so fun to attend with close friends, family, or one’s significant other. 

Now that I’ve talked about my favorite parts, I’m going to transition over to what didn’t really work for me. From the start, I had a hard time keeping our main characters straight as Fern, Sparrow, and Lark all have a ton in common. It really didn’t help that Fern and Sparrow had such similar names; I know that they are twins and all, but it took me at least forty pages to remember who was who. The fact that Fern and Sparrow are both constantly working with books made it hard to tell which PoV I was currently reading, and this only added to me not having the easiest time keeping everyone straight. 

Honestly, I was so annoyed by how often the terms “younger witch,” “young witch,” “older witch,” and “little witch” appear throughout the course of this novella. It honestly made me feel like I was losing my mind when Fern and Sparrow constantly refer to each other as “younger” and “older” witch. That just didn’t seem natural to me at all, especially when it is just as easy to write “Sparrow said.” I know this is such a nit-picky thing, but it honestly drove me bonkers, so I felt I had to include it in my review. I even went to the length of using the Kindle search feature and some of these searches were in the forties, which I found a touch ridiculous. 

Before I go, I do want to say that this one ended a tad abruptly. The Pumpkin Festival isn’t even over by the time the last page is flipped, which I found a bit odd. The epilogue felt a bit more like a chance to name drop other characters in the series rather than actually share more about Fern and Sparrow’s relationship. But then again, most authors probably would have turned this into a sex scene, so I have to give Leyda kudos for sticking to her guns and keeping her no-spice reputation alive. 

Overall, “Ruffled Feathers” was a fine introduction into the “Pumpkin Hollow” series, but I didn’t find it to be anything special. Fern and Sparrow form a sweet relationship with one another, but it doesn’t develop into anything further than cute. The autumnal vibes were on point and this one makes me very hopeful for the rest of the series, I just don’t think this romance was one hundred percent for me. 

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Lizzy’s life is in shambles. On the day she gets fired from her job and catches her loser boyfriend cheating, she finds out her estranged father died and left her a run-down diner. Now she has to return to her childhood home of Pumpkin Hollow, a hidden community for witches and paranormals like her, and run the family business. But Lizzy isn’t the sole owner. Her father left half the house and diner to Victor, his business partner and dangerously hot reanimated corpse.

Victor’s maker crafted him to be the perfect man and cobbled him together from premium parts. But Victor’s desire to be a chef disappointed his creator, and he abandoned him. Since he didn’t have a family, he built his own. He adopted a newly turned zombie teenager and invested his life’s savings into buying half his friend and mentor’s diner to save it from ruin. Victor thought he had it all, then Lizzy, the girl that got away, returned. This time, he won’t let her go.

Lizzy has no desire to run the diner or dating, the tall, scarred chef, but the diner is understaffed, in their busiest season. She agrees to stay until Halloween, help Victor out until after the yearly festival. But as the kitchen and their relationship heats up, she realizes it’s not just inheritance but hearts on the line…

Book Number: Two

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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Air witch Zephyr McAllister is the world’s greatest broomstick racer.

Well, she was, until a crash left her unsure of herself and bearing scars she won’t let anyone see. Now she’s retired early with an entire lifetime ahead of her. And with the realization that her dream career and ex-fiancé have left her behind.

The once overconfident racer has returned to her hometown of Pumpkin Hollow, where she only uses her flying broomstick to deliver the mail. She falls into a lull until the local mechanic, Neil Finnegan, a Storm witch from her past, sparks a rivalry between them.

Though her racing days are behind her, Zephyr can’t keep her competitive nature down. She knows she can make the stoic Neil drop his guard, but is she ready to drop her own? When fighting doesn’t faze him, and she turns to flirting, Neil might prove a challenge her bruised heart isn’t ready for.

A standalone novella full of magic and sweet and spicy romance that will have you racing to the finish. Part of the multi-author standalone series, Pumpkin Hollow.

Book Number: Three

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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A curse twisted every word she spoke. She’d given up all hope, until he–quite literally–crashed into her life.

Lucia Atropa has the most dangerous garden in Pumpkin Hollow and a curse she can’t escape. Every word she speaks twists in the ears of those around her, a parting gift from her family for speaking up about their patenting of folk remedies. She's done trying to be understood. Her night-blooming flowers never ask her to explain herself, and she busies herself in her work, even as the loneliness creeps closer every night.

She didn't account for a six-foot-something Mothman with wings, a leather jacket, and a ridiculously strong affinity for lamps.

Hawk Acheron just does the deliveries. He doesn't settle down, always on the move for good reasons he doesn't talk about. But when a broken Moon Queen flower dusts them both with its pollen, suddenly he can feel everything Lucia is feeling and for the first time in years, someone actually understands her.

Now they're stuck within each other until Halloween, when they can to break the bond for good. Surely nothing could come from two emotionally stunted people spending the most magically potent time of the year forced to stay near someone who can read their every feeling like a book. No reason why this should become anything more than a temporary inconvenience.

Except the counter-spell requires them to both truly want it broken. For a witch who's been betrayed by everyone she trusted and a mothman who's spent his life taking care of others, choosing to trust is scarier than any Halloween fright.

For two very lonely people, one fateful delivery leads to a whole lot more than a broken greenhouse window.

Book Number: Four

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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When healer witch Milo Pembrooke and his handsome Chimera mate, Grievance, discover Pumpkin Hollow has a new “pest” just days before the annual Pumpkin Festival, they volunteer to catch it before frightened townsfolk take matters into their own hands. But the elusive culprit turns out to be a mischievous baby dragon who’s more interested in smashing pumpkins than causing trouble.

Between overflowing customers, an unexpected potion mishap, and one tiny ice-breathing troublemaker, Milo and Grievance may discover their little family is about to get a whole lot bigger.

Book Number: Five

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance | LGBTQIA+ 

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When the caretaker of Pumpkin Hollow’s cathedral passes away, Kitchen Witch Amelie is called to take her place. But when the town illusion begins to fail and the dead start to rise from their graves, Amelie must help the residents of the cathedral get ahold of their powers before they reveal the quaint little town to the dangers of the human world.

Can she get the convent of witches under control before everything falls apart? And what happens when they all start to take a special interest in her? Will there be enough of her to go around?

Book Number: Six

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance | LGBTQIA+ 

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Rowen Sinclair values his quiet, orderly life running his family’s magical bakery in Pumpkin Hollow, until vivacious Sadie crashes into his life.

As a brand new vampire, Sadie Corvin is struggling to survive on her own. She uses hook-ups to get blood, but after a memorable make-out session with sexy witch Rowen, she’s shocked to learn he owns the bakery that just hired her as a night baker.

Rowen is furious with the sunshine vampire—she’s a total disaster in the kitchen and somehow convinces him to let her keep her job. Now he has to train her to bake properly, resist kissing her again, and prepare for the upcoming pumpkin festival all at the same time!

Warning: This cozy novella is both spicy and sweet, and contains an adorable town full of witchy small businesses, a grumpy kitchen witch with magenta hair, a hot mess vampire bombshell, and some very inappropriate uses of frosting...

Book Number: Seven

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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From author Fleur DeVillainy, author of Spellbound Scones and Sky of Thorns comes a new fall romance full of laughter, magic, and pumpkin spice lattes.

A fake-dating paranormal romance set in Pumpkin Hollow. A kitchen witch, a jaguar-shifter detective, and one week until the Pumpkin Festival.

Evie Hawthorne is barely holding Brews and Broomsticks together. The B&B is booked solid, her aunts keep setting the parlor on fire while they scry for her soulmate, and a family curse says the bed-and-breakfast stays unlucky until she finds her mate. She does not have time for a man.

Liam Ironwood does not have time to be polite about it. The jaguar shifter is in town to stop a thief who has already taken three magical heirlooms, and he believes the Hawthorne wand is next. A boyfriend is the perfect cover. It keeps the town from asking why he is really there, and it keeps Evie's aunts from finding her a date.

All they have to do is pretend until the festival. Then the pretending starts to feel like a claim, the thief gets closer to the wand, and Pumpkin Hollow stops playing along.

Potions and Paw Prints is a standalone in the Pumpkin Hollow series. Small-town paranormal romance, fake dating, grumpy sunshine, opposites attract, and a slow burn that turns spicy.

Book Number: Eight

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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For three hundred years, Alaric Blackwood has watched over Pumpkin Hollow as a ghost, cursed to witness the town he died protecting but never touch it again.

Rosalin Graves has spent her entire life believing she's the weakest necromancer in her family—until a chance accident awakens the town's legendary founder. Suddenly, she's the only person who can see him, hear him, and hold him.

As they unravel the centuries-old curse binding Alaric to the cemetery, friendship blossoms into an impossible love. But freeing him may mean losing him forever, and some ghosts are far harder to let go than they ever expected.

Book Number: Nine

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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Marigold “Goldie” Thorne once believed in forever—until the man she loved accused her of bewitching his heart. Shattered and determined to start over, she poured her soul into Enchantresso, a cozy coffee and tea shop where every brew carries a touch of magic.

But when Lucian Duskbane, the jackal shifter who broke her heart, walks back into town, old wounds stir and sparks fly. He claims he’s back to care for his sick father and run the family repair business, but Goldie can’t ignore the way his eyes still linger… or how her heart still races.

One sip, one look, and they’re both reminded—some loves are brewed too strong to fade.

Book Number: Ten (Last Book) 

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance 

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