Don’t wait until the scary season to read Erin Sterling’s witchy romance The Ex Hex.

Witch Vivienne and Warlock Rhys have a summer fling in college that ends badly–so badly that Vivi kicks him out of her bed and curses him.

Some actual hocus pocus kicks into gear when Rhys returns to the town of Graves Glen a decade later. This magic is the kind that can burn Graves Glen to the ground. Rhys and Vivi combine powers to fix the curse. Can they fight their chemistry as well as the forces of darkness?

The sex scenes in The Ex Hex are too steamy to be a cozy romance. However, the bantering, aggressively autumnal town of Graves Glen, and talking cat magic will charm readers who don’t mind the occasional f-bomb in a Practical Magic-esque setting.