A CURSE FOR CHRISTMAS PAST

Hayleigh Gray is cursed. If the firing, wire fraud, and breakup weren't enough, the discovery of a lump on her beloved horse's neck finally sends Hayleigh to the winter festival in the small town of Elk Ridge. Trouble is, Elk Ridge is the very place where she discovered that witches are real and managed to make an enemy of one (okay, maybe a few) last holiday season.

There, she crosses paths with Stephan Midwinter, an animal-loving artist with lumberjack good looks, a reputation with women that stretches a mile long, and a whole lot of magic that Hayleigh wants nothing to do with. Adamant that his coven wasn't involved in Hayleigh's curse, Stephan o?ers to help her find the real culprit and break the curse before New Year's Day. As Hayleigh and Stephan face ancestral secrets, mischievous holiday spirits and sprites, and are snowed in at the world's kitschiest holiday B&B inside of an old
train car, Hayleigh begins to open her heart up to magic, and to Stephan Midwinter.

But Stephan and his way of life are in direct opposition to everything Hayleigh's been taught to want, and old habits die hard. With the curse amping up and time running out, will she really be able to embrace a new kind of happiness, or will she fall back into the patterns of Christmas past?

Morgan Lockhart hails from the Pacific Northwest, where she currently lives with her family. Growing up in the woods of Washington state, Lockhart has always been telling and consuming stories in all shapes and sizes. She roamed her way to California, where she graduated with highest honors from the creative writing department at UC San Diego. She is the author of A Spell for Midwinter's Heart (Dutton, 2025) and A Curse For Christmas Past, forthcoming.