Series: Witching After Forty #2
Author: Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff
Publisher: Lia Davis
Publish Date: 03.16.2021
Category /Genre: Paranormal Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing: received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from: L.A. Boruff
Goodreads link: A Cursed Midlife
Date completed: 03.18.2021
Description from the publisher:
Necromancer trainee, book seller, novel writer Ava Harper is settling into her new life with friends and her houseguests. And she definitely isn’t thinking about a certain hunky sheriff who pops in unannounced at every turn. And mostly ignoring her devilish new neighbor, a lingering Christmas present from herself.
She has bigger things to worry about. Like learning her newly woken powers. And convincing her house that she isn’t selling it so it will stop scaring off any visitors. Plus, she’s teaching a ghoul to use a computer. Why shouldn’t he? He can’t talk, he might as well be able to use social media.
Her life gets more complicated when the local coven decides Ava has dodged them for long enough. She doesn’t have any interest in joining the coven. She’s everything they turn their nose up at. A necromancer with a weird ability to heal people.
But they want her.
When a member of the coven is severely injured in a freak accident, the coven calls Ava in to heal her. And the more Ava learns about the so-called accident the more her past haunts her.
When other coven members fall victim to freak accidents, Ava is sure something dark is at play.
Once again, she puts her trust in her friends—and the deliciously mysterious man in charge of the local law enforcement—to get to the bottom of whoever is targeting witches.
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Ava has decided to stay in Shipton Harbor, she is embracing her powers – both witchy and necromancer, she and the sheriff are dating, and her family-by-choice has grown. Then this sleepy little town, that never has violent crime, is suddenly plagued by odd deaths. They seem to be related to related to how Larry was killed!
I love how this group of supernaturals and Ava’s non-sup friends work together to solve the mystery. I love the humor, the friendships, and the romance that is slowly building between Ava and sheriff Drew. There are parts of this particular story that are heart-breaking and could become dark, but instead they are handled sensitively while allowing a little “gallows-humor” to lighten the mood and move us along. Then we quickly bounce back and bounce ahead with perfect pace and timing.
I loved this story from beginning to end and wouldn’t have skipped a word of it! Every character is interesting and fully-fleshed out (even the skeleton with no skin – sorry, I couldn’t help myself!).
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Witching After Forty Series:
1. A Ghoulish Midlife
1.1 Cookies for Satan
1.2 I’m with Cupid
2. A Cursed Midlife
2.1 Feeding Them Will Make Them Grow (Anthology releases 04.01.2021)
2.2 A Girlfriend for Mr. Snoozerton (coming soon)
3. A Haunting Midlife (releases 05.25.2021)
4. An Animated Midlife (coming soon)
5. A Killer Midlife (coming soon)
Also from Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff:
Lucifer’s War Series:
1. Devil’s Consort
2. Devil’s Assassin
Academy’s Rise Series:
1. Hell Fire
2. Dark Water
3. Dead Air
Also from Lia Davis:
· Awakening Fate (Crimson Moon Hideaway #8)
· The Big Bad Wolf
· Bounty’s Flame
· Claiming Her Dragons
· Dragon’s Web
· First Contact (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
· Ghost in a Bottle (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
· Hexed with Sass (Sassy Ever After)
· Imperfect Mate (Harmony Springs #4)
· Interviews, Aliens, Seduction
· Marked by Darkness (The Dark Fae Hollows #8)
· Ravished before Sunrise
· Reborn (Wicked Reform School: House of Phoenix)
· Rogue Alliance (Wolves of Chaos Valley #2) (releases 07.05.2021)
· Their Royal Ash (Once Upon a Harem #4)
· Royal Enchantment
· Rune of Passing (Immortal Keeper #3) (releases 03.23.2021)
· Sunstone’s Fire (Cursed in Stone #1)
· Shadow Mage (The Nightshade Guild #4) (releases 04.29.2021)
· Tempting the Wolf
· A Winter Mating
Academy of the Phoenix Series:
1. Ghost Hunt
2. The Devil’s Mage
3. Crown of Temptation
Bears of Blackrock Series:
1. Bear Essentials
2. Bear Magick
3. A Beary Sweet Holiday
4. Bear Marked
Blood and Stone Series:
1. A Vampire Christmas
Coven’s End Series:
1. Kane
2. Voss
3. Quin
4. Jillian
Dark Scales Series (with Kerry Adrienne):
1. Dragon Undercover
2. Snowed Undercover
The Divinities Series:
1. Forgotten Visions
2. Death’s Storm
3. Dark Divine
4. Divine Awakening
Dragons of Ares Series:
1. War’s Passion
2. Ashes of War
3. Chaotic War
4. Bound by War
Gods and Dragons Series:
1. Artemis’s Hunt
Pleasures of the Heart Series:
1. Business Pleasures
2. Red Hot Pleasures
Shifters of Ashwood Falls Series:
1. Winter Eve
2. A Tiger’s Claim
3. A Mating Dance
4. Surrendering to the Alpha
5. A Rebel’s Heart
6. Divided Loyalties
7. Touch of Desire
8. A Leopard’s Path
9. A Jaguar’s Judgement
10. Bundles of Pink
11. Alpha Challenge
12. Mating Chaos
13. A Tiger for Two
14. Claimed by the Alpha
Shifting Magick Series:
1. Moon Curse
2. Moon Kissed
3. Moon Mated
Shifting into Midlife Series:
1. Pack Bunco Night
Witches of Rose Lake Series:
1. Marked for Them
2. Fighting for Them
3. Hunted by Them
4. Bound to Them
Wolves of Whiskey Hollow Series:
1. Charmed Wolf
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