A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A warm spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has
been keeping from her with echoes of the classic Hades and Persephone story in the tradition
of Practical Magic and Witch of Wild Things . Hecate Goodwin Kate to her friends has
curated the perfect life as a hedge witch living in a secluded cottage with only a black cat
for company. She spends her days foraging herbs from the Ipswich forest gardening and
creating tinctures to sell at the apothecary she owns. Most evenings pass without her speaking
to another human being an arrangement she quite prefers. Kate’s solitude is thrown into
disarray when her older sister Miranda reaches out and asks her to host their coven’s annual
Halloween gathering. The day marks the beginning of the new year for witches and is also Kate’s
birthday. The pressure from her coven to make the evening memorable mounts as the event draws
near. To complicate things further a handsome man from Kate’s past turns up at her cottage
asking for sanctuary. It is Kate’s duty as a hedge witch to honor this request much to her
dismay. Matthew Cypher is no ordinary lost soul–he’s a practitioner of forbidden magic who’s
tricked Kate once before and her guard is up. As she juggles Matthew’s arrival and the
preparations for Halloween Kate comes across an old tome shrouded in dark magic. She is
horrified when she realizes the blood-red inscription is written in familiar handwriting: her
recently deceased mother’s. Afraid to even touch the dark magic her mother secretly studied
Kate can turn only to Matthew for help. Her idealized memory of her mother begins to distort
and as she and Matthew grow closer Kate has to reevaluate whom she can really trust. A
Dark and Secret Magic is a celebration of the Halloween season and a love letter to anyone who
drinks pumpkin spice in August and carries the spirit of a witch inside their heart all year
long.
