Rhea Wolfe inherits a shuttered video store, a mountain town her mother warned her away from, and a family magic nobody mentioned. Isla Jewell builds a cozy witch romance around one overextended woman's fresh start.
Readical Key Points
- Book one of the Arcadia Falls series (Book 1 of 2, per Penguin Random House).
- A cozy, witchy romantic comedy with a small-town mystery running underneath.
- Reviewed in Booklist, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.
- Paperback from Del Rey Books, published February 3, 2026; 368 pages.
Rhea works a desk job at an Alabama insurance agency, keeps an on-and-off thing going with the local mechanic, and props up two younger sisters who still lean on her. When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her everything, Rhea lands in Arcadia Falls with a dead video store she means to turn into a bookshop. The handyman helping with repairs, Hunter Blakely, comes from the family her grandmother feuded with in witchcraft, and strange things in town start pointing to a secret her grandmother kept.
The paperback opens the Arcadia Falls series. It suits readers of cozy paranormal romance and small-town romcoms who like their magic warm and their humor quick. At its center is a woman who has spent years holding everyone else together, finally handed something of her own.
About the Author
Isla Jewell writes the Arcadia Falls series. Under the name Delilah S. Dawson, she is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Star Wars: Phasma, The Violence and It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, and with Kevin Hearne she writes the Tales of Pell.
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