Starry Hollow Witches

Magic & Murder introduces Ember Rose and her daughter Marley as they are whisked from New Jersey to Starry Hollow after a repo job goes dangerously wrong. Ember finds herself in a town of witches, werewolves, and faeries — and the descendant of the most powerful witch who ever lived.

When a coven member turns up dead and the gruff werewolf sheriff makes Ember his prime suspect, she does what any Jersey girl would do: investigate herself. A warm, quick-witted entry point to the series.

Magic & Mystery settles Ember and Marley into Starry Hollow life — just in time for someone to start turning the town's most eligible bachelors into frogs. With cousin Florian among the afflicted, Ember must work alongside Sheriff Nash to find the cursed culprit before any more princes-turned-frogs are lost.

The second book deepens the world and sharpens the chemistry between Ember and Nash, delivering a clever mystery with genuine wit.

Magic & Mischief raises the personal stakes when Starry Hollow residents begin experiencing their worst nightmares in real life — and both Sheriff Nash and Ember's boss Alec are among those afflicted.

Ember must solve the curse before her own worst nightmare comes true, in a book that begins layering in the romantic triangle that will run through much of the series.

Magic & Mayhem brings the first annual Balefire Beach sand sculpture competition — and a dead body in the sand. Ember and Nash are 'hot on the trail' in both senses of the phrase, while one of Ember's spells goes badly sideways with unintended consequences.

The chemistry is at its most electric here and the mystery is tightly plotted, making this a fan-favorite entry in the series.

Magic & Mercy sends Ember to the annual Paranormal Estate Managers Association conference, where the butler is murdered before anyone can see who did it. Aunt Hyacinth's beloved Simon is implicated, and nothing will stop Hyacinth from going to war — so Ember must solve the case first.

Broomstick lessons and a Nash family pack picnic add warmth alongside the mystery, and the Nash-Ember dynamic takes another meaningful step forward.

Magic & Madness sends Ember into the unlikely world of competitive baking when a traveling carnival comes to Starry Hollow — and a body is found in the seer's tent. She swaps her rolling pin for her reporter's pen, but the case becomes personal when her vampire boss's girlfriend joins a rival baking team.

A lighter-toned entry that showcases the series' gift for absurdist situations while still delivering a satisfying mystery resolution.

Magic & Malice takes Ember to the lavish birthday party of a 200-year-old matriarch who dies before the cake is served — in circumstances that are very obviously not natural. Marley's eleventh birthday is looming with its own magical complications, and Ember's love life refuses to stay in the background.

The series' best integration of the ongoing personal arc with the standalone mystery plot, and a pivotal book for Ember's character development.

Magic & Mythos opens with the fallout from a major decision Ember made at the end of the previous book, just as a new murder forces her into an unlikely partnership with leprechaun Deputy Bolan. Meanwhile Marley is navigating her own growing magical abilities.

A transitional book that handles its changes to the series' status quo with confidence, deepening several character relationships while delivering a tight mystery.

Magic & Mishaps puts Alec in the frame for a victim drained of blood, forcing Ember to prove her vampire editor's innocence while Sheriff Nash insists his interest in the case is purely professional. A crossover with the 'Spellbound' series brings in familiar faces from another of Annabel Chase's worlds.

The vampire mythology of Starry Hollow gets its deepest exploration here, and Raoul the flying cat contracts a mysterious illness that adds welcome emotional stakes.

Magic & Maladies takes Ember to a wedding where the most obnoxious guest ends up dead, while Sheriff Nash starts showing more wolf than warmth during the investigation — alarming both Ember and the town's paranormal power structure.

A sharply plotted mystery with strong ensemble moments, and a significant development in the mystery of Ember's ancestor Ivy.

Magic & Misdeeds brings a gaming tournament to Starry Hollow and a dead player to Ember's doorstep. A relative with a talent for irritating Aunt Hyacinth arrives for a visit; Raoul gets in over his head in something he should have avoided.

The gaming world provides fresh comic material, and the Ivy arc takes another meaningful step toward its eventual reveal.

Magic & Monsters sees the famously reclusive Creature Hunter Winston York emerge from retirement to film an endangered magical creature — and die during filming. What looks like a terrible accident starts looking very much like murder.

The natural-history angle gives this entry a distinctive flavor, and the mystery's solution is one of the series' most surprising.

Magic & Misfits follows junior reporter Bentley Smith as he digs into the cold case of Sheriff Nash's murdered father — turning up evidence that implicates someone at the heart of Starry Hollow. Ember must manage the fallout from her refusal to grant Aunt Hyacinth the power she's been angling for.

A more serious tone than the series' norm, with genuinely moving moments as the Nash family history is finally confronted.

Magic & Misfortune sends Ember chasing a stolen jewel that brings misfortune to whoever possesses it — with the entire town of Starry Hollow suffering the cascading effects as long as it remains unfound.

The premise allows Chase to throw obstacle after absurd obstacle at Ember in a breezy, propulsive entry that also advances the Ivy storyline meaningfully.

Magic & Marriage unleashes a paranormal version of 'The Bachelor' on Starry Hollow when reality TV comes to town — and a bachelorette ends up dead. Ember is planted inside the show as an undercover investigator by a scheming grandmother who wants to derail her grandson's televised courtship.

A fan favorite for its skewering of reality-TV tropes and a cast of delightfully absurd new characters, with a plot twist that lands perfectly.

Magic & Midnight investigates the death of Sycamore's Midnight Surfer — an ornery fixture of Balefire Beach — in a case with more suspects than grains of sand. At home, Marley begins testing boundaries under the influence of an older friend, giving Ember the most relatable parenting challenge of the series.

A grounded, character-driven entry that uses the family subplot as effectively as it uses the mystery.

Magic & Mirrors unleashes a chaotic spell on Starry Hollow that makes everyone appear to others as they see themselves — while a murder hides in the magical confusion. Sheriff Nash, fully wolf under the spell's influence, manages to attempt a marriage proposal anyway.

The self-perception concept is used to genuinely funny and occasionally touching effect, and the mystery uses the conceit cleverly rather than just as window dressing.

Magic & Mistletoe brings Dickens-style Yuletide chaos to Starry Hollow as Aunt Hyacinth is visited by three persistent ghosts — and a more threatening ghost from the past closes in. Ember must save both Christmas and her aunt.

A seasonal entry that leans into the cozy warmth of the series' best moments while using Aunt Hyacinth's redemption arc to deliver genuine emotional satisfaction.

Magic & Mutiny brings the Starry Hollow Witches to its conclusion as the ancestor Ember resurrected — Ivy, the One True Witch — turns against the coven that wronged her centuries ago, threatening to destroy everything Ember has built. On top of that, Ember is about to marry Sheriff Nash.

A satisfying finale that pays off the Ivy arc, resolves the romance, and gives every major character a meaningful send-off — the rare long-running series that sticks the landing.