Love Spells Trouble
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
You Should See Me in a Crown meets Black girl magic--literally--in this enchanting rom-com about a reluctant witch caught up in a faking dating scheme.
Witches and humans have always had issues.
Cayden is well aware of that: her witch mom was shunned by her high-society parents when she fell in love with Cayden's human dad. Now, the family business is in trouble due to wealthy witches gentrifying her historic Texas neighborhood. So Cayden is appalled when she realizes she unknowingly went on a date with Coven it-boy Khy Carter. But when her father's bakery has an influx of new customers, she realizes Khy might just be a solution to her family's problems: Cayden absolutely cannot be with a Coven boy, but that doesn't mean she can't pretend to be.
Suddenly, Cayden is thrown into the Coven system she grew up despising, but it turns out embracing the witchy side of herself is actually…fun. As she spends more time with Khy, their fake dating starts to feel like real feelings. And even though she's doing this for her family, Cayden knows she's also betraying them. Her parents may have put love before everything else, but is Cayden willing to do the same?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Because her witch mother married a human, Houston teenager Cayden Maya Jackson lives on the outskirts of witch society. She busies herself by helping at Cayden's Confections, her father's financially struggling bakery, and Lucky Paws, an animal rescue. After Cayden is tasked with grooming Hades, a temperamental poodle she believes detests her for being a witch, she meets Hades's owner, Mekhi. The teens form an instant connection and agree to go on a date. But when their romantic outing ends in humiliation for Cayden, she learns that Khy is also a witch. Worse, he's royalty, and part of her mother's former coven, which turned its back on her for marrying a nonmagical man. As Cayden and her human cousin Mercedes plot revenge against Khy, they decide to kill two birds with one stone: while they organize an event to drive traffic to the bakery, Cayden pretends to forgive Khy and agrees to date him, hoping their publicized relationship and Khy's royal status will put Cayden's Confections on the map. The magnetic Black characters' affectionate dynamics—despite her attempts to remain aloof, Cayden warms to Khy as a fellow "sneakerhead"—lighten thought-provoking examinations of class differences and intracommunal conflict in this upbeat romance by Davenport (Out of Body). Ages 13–up.
