A Match Made in Spell

<p><strong>Some fates are harder to avoid than others.</strong></p><p>When your family legacy comes with a body count and a curse that turned Grandma into a lawn ornament normal was never in the cards.</p><p>Lexi Balefire's witch ancestors were once revered as Keepers of the Balefire Flame-until a legendary feud pitted her mother against her grandmother. Their magical battle destroyed more than each other; it reduced the Balefire name to a punchline and left her in charge of a dying hearth.</p><p>The problem? Lexi's never unlocked more than a whisper of her power-just enough to craft unbreakable happily-ever-afters for her matchmaking clients but not much else. When it comes to the Balefire her three well-meaning but troublesome faerie godmothers do all the heavy lifting.</p><p>It's a good thing Lexi's got a closet full of designer boots and a magical knack for creating romance out of thin air because her own love life? Total dumpster fire.</p><p>That is until she meets Kin Clark-a charismatic musician whose smile could melt steel and whose touch makes her believe that maybe just maybe a wicked Balefire witch deserves her own fairy tale ending. With Kin in her life Lexi's almost willing to let her looming Awakening deadline slip past surrender her dwindling magic and watch the ancestral fireplace grow cold.</p><p>But only <em>almost</em>.</p><p>When her former BFF turned arch-nemesis Serena Snodgrass starts dropping hints about buried secrets in the Balefire family saga-and a supposedly unbreakable client match shatters overnight-Lexi's search for her missing legacy kicks into overdrive. As her dormant magic stirs to life trouble follows and things spiral from zero to what-the-spell faster than you can say ancestral vendettas.</p><p>With threads of her family's turbulent past unraveling around her Lexi must confront her deepest fears embrace her birthright and claim the power she's always denied-or lose everything to the flames.</p><p>Because when you're Cupid's daughter you don't just weave romantic fates-you bind them. And if Lexi can't untangle the knots of her own making the Balefire flame-and her future with Kin-might burn out for good.</p>