Fix-It Witches: Book 5
Publication Date: September 1, 2026
From NYT bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a cozy fae fantasy romance featuring a sunshine-shadow slow burn, a grumpy-but-secretly-tender love interest, an unforgettable found family, and a world lush with wildcraft magic. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries.
Thea Winter didn’t choose to be a changeling – stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in the wildlands by a hobgoblin named Mudge who taught her everything worth knowing. How to read the weather in a crow’s wing. How to barter with brownies. How to stay alive in a world of capricious fae courts. What Mudge couldn’t teach her was how to stay out of trouble. Which is why she’s entangled in a objectionable marriage of convenience.
Or would be, but her spouse bolted. Now she has to hunt down Devan J. Fenelon, but she’s been saddled with a taciturn, humorless hunter known as Winter’s Hound. He answers only to his cousin, and she’s not looking forward to this quest at all.
Kerboros has survived the Winter Court by being exactly what they made him: relentless, invisible, and careful never to want anything at all. His life is an endless series of ceaseless commands from his reprehensible cousin, Lord Liskaal. Since his father’s failed rebellion, Kerboros has been permitted to survive only as an example to others, an object lesson as to how far one may fall. But traveling with Thea-wild, warm, impossible Thea-is a glorious torment for an enforcer who has never known freedom.
She is sunshine. He is shadow.
Their love is forbidden, but when irresistible force sweeps up an immovable object, the resulting reaction might be magical…
Prior to becoming a changeling, Thea Winter was stolen from the mortal world, which gives her a tendency toward misbehavior.
As The Hocus Pocus Handbook opens, Thea indulges in reckless behavior that sabotages peace talks. Author Ann Aguirre combines intricate fae world-building along with a slow-burning romance.
When Thea is unwittingly offered up as part of a written marriage pact between Summer and Winter, she and the Winter hunter must locate the missing groom.
For Kerberos, being under the thumb of the Winter king prevents him from experiencing freedom. As a result, his character is grouchy. Working with Thea, however, unlocks a secret part of him.
The banter between the two main characters is enjoyable, especially as the forbidden attraction continues to grow. The author integrates a nice conclusion to bring all the pieces together.
The Hocus Pocus Handbook serves up a cozy fae fantasy romance full of magic.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre has been a clown, a clerk, a savior of stray kittens, and a voice actress, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in Mexico with her family. She writes all kinds of genre fiction, but she has an eternal soft spot for a happily ever after.
