On Thanksgiving weekend, Beatrix “Trixie” Fairchild expects her three grown children to meet her in Niagara Falls. For what, she won't say -- but her cryptic invitation spark a certain kind of magick and makes it so each one of her adult children returns to their hometown with hope, and only a small amount of resentment, in their hearts.<br><br>Whether it's Ivy, the oldest, who fears following in her mother's witchy footsteps; or Hazel, the middle child with itchy feet and a wanderlust that can't be sated; or Rowan, the youngest and only boy, now a trans woman struggling to integrate her past and present lives; each returns home, expecting some sort of resolution to their family woes. What they get is a surprise love interest along the way.<br><br>Will Ivy continue to overthink her own happiness, refusing to see what is right in front of her? Will Hazel feel too betrayed by her false family line and leave now that she has no home anchoring her in place? And will Rowan be able to finally integrate the best parts of herself without compromise and hurt feelings in the aftermath? What is Trixie planning for the holiday weekend?

The Thanksgiving Invitation

“And if you think I won’t ever be able to find you,” her mother had told Hazel in her teenage years, “then you’re wrong. You’re part of my blood. I will find you.”


At the time, her words were supposed to be both a threat to prevent Hazel from sneaking out in the middle of the night, and also a call for belonging, family, and all that other Hallmark channel stuff that, quite frankly, Hazel hated. Her memory of her mother’s line now only made her angry, much angrier than she ever had been before, because now she knew it was a lie. She wasn’t part of her mother’s blood. Hazel wasn’t part of the strange and twisted family tree of witches and elders and ancestors she’d grown up hearing stories about.


Chapter 7