Some love stories don't end. They wait.
Selene Voss reads tarot in a bookshop where the candles light themselves.
For seven years she's run Between the Pages ? a coffee-and-books shop on First Street in a small Pacific Northwest river town, where the tea pours itself, the shelves rearrange overnight to hand each customer the book they couldn't name, and a cat named Ptolemy keeps his own counsel. Selene is the town psychic, the latest in a long line of Voss women who've read cards on this street for generations. She's made a careful peace with her strange, gentle life. And she has one rule: never fall for the things the cards won't stop showing her.
Then, on a rain-dark morning in October, the deck turns up The Fool ? the beginning of everything ? and a man walks in out of the wet, asking for a reading.
She knows his face. She's been dreaming it for six months.
The moment Cael Morgan's hand drifts near hers across the reading table, Selene is somewhere else entirely: warm stone, golden light, the smell of a river four thousand years gone. Because they've done this before. Loved each other in a temple in ancient Egypt. In a painter's attic in a burning Paris. In the glittering, dangerous rush of the 1920s. Loved each other across more lifetimes than she can count ?
? and every single time, something has ended it before they could finish.
Now the same drowning dream won't let her sleep. The same card keeps surfacing. And forty feet down the block, in the cold foundation of an old building, something that has been waiting for a hundred and thirty-eight years is beginning to stir.
With her found family of First Street witches gathering close ? a sharp-eyed herbalist, a retired-schoolteacher oracle, a best friend who reads people the way Selene reads cards ? she has one chance to break a pattern older than memory.
To finish, this time, what love keeps starting.
Before it takes him again.
Love Is the Oldest Magic is the first book in the Witches of First Street ? a cozy, slow-burn paranormal romance steeped in tarot, autumn rain, found family, and a love that refuses to stay buried. For readers who fell for Practical Magic, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and The Ex Hex.
Fated mates • reincarnation romance • witchy bookshop • small-town cozy fantasy • found family • slow burn • one great love, many lifetimes
