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First Place Witch
Holly’s big break just became her biggest nightmare.
With her potions shop officially open, Holly heads to the San Francisco Haven for a televised competition, going wand-to-wand with the country’s most elite masters. What should be a career-defining moment quickly sours when Haven Council officials start snooping around her workstation.
When a competitor turns up dead, all eyes turn to Holly and her apprentice. Holly knows they had nothing to do with it, but convincing the Haven Council is another story—especially when some members wouldn’t mind seeing her disappear permanently.
The Beechwood Harbor crew have to find the real killer before Holly and Harmony have to trade their aprons for prison robes.
First Place Witch
First Place Witch
Cozy Pairings
Vanilla & Cashmere is a soft and luxurious fragrance that blends creamy vanilla with warm sandalwood, gentle musk, and smooth cashmere notes. Subtle and refined, this scent feels clean, comforting, and quietly indulgent. The warmth of vanilla is balanced by light woods and soft musk, creating a smooth, layered aroma that lingers beautifully without overpowering. It brings a sense of calm and ease to any space, like wrapping yourself in something soft at the end of the day.
Why we chose this: Holly Boldt is a potion witch on magical parole, living in a manor haunted by a ghost landlady, sharing space with vampire roommates, and somehow stumbling into a murder investigation on her very first week in Beechwood Harbor. What starts as an inconvenient exile slowly becomes something she never expected: a home, a community, and a found family of supernatural misfits who show up for each other without being asked. Vanilla + Cashmere carries the soft, enveloping warmth of a series where belonging sneaks up on you, quietly indulgent and entirely without fuss. It is the candle for every book in this series. Light this candle and let the warmth of vanilla and sandalwood fill the room like a beachside manor where the landlady is opinionated, the roommates have fangs, and the life Holly never planned for turns out to be exactly the one she needed.