The Kiss Curse
Welcome to Spooky Season!! The follow-up to Erin Sterling’s New York Times bestselling hit The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry.
Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom, and her cousin have formed a new and powerful coven; she’s running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she’s started mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches, there’s only one problem—Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow.
Wells has come to Graves Glen to re-establish his family’s connection to the town they founded as well as to make a new life for himself after years of being the dutiful son in Wales. When he opens up a shop of his own, Penhallow’s, just across the street from Something Wicked, he quickly learns he’s gotten more than he bargained for in going up against Gwyn.
When their professional competition leads to a very personal—and very hot—kiss, both Wells and Gwyn are determined to stay away from each other, convinced the kiss was just a magical fluke. But when a mysterious new coven of witches come to town and Gwyn’s powers begin fading, she and Wells must work together to figure out just what these new witches want and how to restore Gwyn’s magic before it’s too late.
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Erin Sterling
Erin Sterling is the pen name of Rachel Hawkins, a New York Times bestselling author who has a talent for weaving spells of romance, humor, and magic into stories that feel both enchanting and grounded. Under this name she steps away from the darker gothic thrillers she writes as Hawkins and instead invites readers into the witch-lit charm of small towns where curses, family legacies, and the occasional love potion keep life deliciously unpredictable.
Born in Virginia and raised in Alabama, she grew up surrounded by Southern folklore and a fascination with the uncanny. That mix of ordinary life and something otherworldly never quite left her, and it now shapes the heart of her work. Before publishing full-time she taught high school English, a period that sharpened her ear for dialogue and gave her an appreciation for how humor and vulnerability can live side by side in a single line of conversation.
Graves Glen
The town of Graves Glen looks like any other quiet corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its cozy shops, college-town energy, and leaf-strewn streets. But beneath the pumpkins and autumn festivals, magic hums through the air, binding families, rivalries, and long-held secrets together.
This is a place where witches live openly alongside mortals, where a poorly aimed spell can ignite a decades-old feud, and where falling in love might be the most dangerous enchantment of all. At the heart of the series are characters who stumble, banter, and bicker their way through curses and family legacies, only to find that the truest kind of magic is often the one they least expect.
Graves Glen consists of three books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
