Rue Channing had her life exactly the way she liked it — quiet, predictable, and blissfully free of surprises. Sure, her visions had a way of popping in uninvited, but they were just another quirk of being a witch. Nothing she couldn’t manage.

Then one ordinary day turned extraordinary… for all the wrong reasons.

Without warning, Rue is kidnapped and whisked away from her cozy librarian life to the coastal town of Laurel Haven, Maine. There’s no ransom demand, no clear explanation — just a whole lot of unanswered questions and one unsettling truth: Rue’s been brought here for a reason.

Three hundred years ago, four witches tried to protect the town from an encroaching darkness. They failed. Now that same evil is stirring again, and Rue may be the only one who can finish what her ancestors started.

She’s not exactly thrilled about being “chosen,” and Ry McFadden — the frustratingly magnetic man who seems determined to be part of her story — is a distraction she doesn’t want but can’t ignore. Still, when the shadows close in, Rue will have to decide whether to step into the destiny she never asked for… or watch Laurel Haven fall.

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