In the Company of Witches

Score: 4/5 Bookmarks

Thank you to Berkley for gifting me a review copy of In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace. I adored this book, adored it! And it couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time because this book will give you all the small-town fall and witchy vibes.

Brynn helps her aunt run their family’s bed and breakfast and has pretty much sworn off magic. At least, her abilities seem to have disappeared since her husband died in an accident.

But when a guest dies while under their roof and suspicions turn to her aunt Nora, Brynn will do whatever she has to in order to clear her name.

I’m pleased as a toad in magic (read the book to get that one) that this is only book one in the new Evenfall Witches B&B series! The second book, When the Crow’s Away is due to come out in April 2022! I can’t wait!

Synopsis:

When a guest dies in the B&B she helps her aunts run, a young witch must rely on some good old-fashioned investigating to clear her aunt's name in this magical and charming new cozy mystery.

For four hundred years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the sleepy New England town of Evenfall thrive. There's never been a problem they couldn't handle. But then Constance Graves--a local known for being argumentative and demanding--dies while staying at the bed and breakfast Brynn Warren maintains with her aunts. At first, it seems like an accident...but it soon becomes clear that there's something more sinister at work, and Aunt Nora is shaping up to be the prime suspect.

There's nothing Brynn wants more than to prove Nora's innocence, and it hurts her to know that even two years ago that might have been easier. Brynn, after all, is a witch of the dead--a witch who can commune with ghosts. Ghosts never remember much about their deaths, but Constance might remember something about her life that would help crack the case. But Brynn hasn't used her powers since her husband died, and isn't even sure she still can. Brynn will just have to hope that her aunts' magic and her own investigative skills will lead her to answers--and maybe back to the gift she once thought herself ready to give up forever.