Addersfield is a sanctuary for witches. 1697 three founders created a protection spell for the town so only who is aware of magic or who knows about the town is able to find it.
Olivia and her son live since some years happily in this town as no she is getting used and taught how to use magic and finally found in the town members new friends and family. There she gets accepted for who she is and also her cerebral palsy is not causing any issues for her as she is able to walk everywhere she needs to be.
One day Draven shows up in town and Olivia knows something big is in the air and is not trusting him. She wants to make sure the town and everybody she loves is save. After the death of his mom Draven found her journals where she is talking about that she was a witch but lost her magic, hence left her home town. Not being a witch any longer was the reason why his father left the family. So for him magic is the root cause for so much pain in his family hence magic is bad. Magic was taken from his mom, nobody in her town was supporting her and in the end she hat to take care of her two sons alone. As a journalist he wants to expose the town and magic to the world to destroy them and to get his revenge. So he expected many things but not that his new neighbour Olivia is also raising feelings in him he did not expect.
I really like the idea here that we have a cosy small town in which not only witches live but also normal people who are aware of magic. Also how this town is like a big family, everybody is there for the other, how they stick together is really nice. That a spell is preventing the town to be found and exposed to unknown is a good idea.
In general I like the character of Olivia but the mention that she has cerebral palsy is coming up for me a bit too often. I mean she found a really good way to live with it and in the story you are not reading that there are too many things she can´t do. Also right from the start she is not trusting Draven, what I really liked, but then very fast she gets romantically with him.
Draven I really had my issues with him right from the start. He is so convinced that magic is bad as his mom lost it and he is making the town responsible for it, also that nobody helped her to get it back, nobody supported his mom when she left. I mean he hat only journals with some info but not the whole picture and from a journalist I expected there a bit more. After being in town and meeting Olivia and her sun he is not willing to expose the town in an article any longer but still has so much anger against magic that the dramatical part in this story couldn´t convince me. I would have preferred another twist here without this not really too dramatic part.
Also the erotic encounter between these two is something I did not expect so explicit. To be honest with less I think I would have liked the story more as for me concentrating on the small spells everybody is using or also to have spells in the backed goods could have been more worked out.
So really a nice idea, a cosy town with really nice characters but for me the magic portion could have been a bit more.