Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweatpants and Spells | 2021 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 2 | Scrapbooking the Supernatural | 2021 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 3 | Wrinkles and Runes | 2021 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 4 | Hijinks and Hot Flashes | 2022 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 5 | Crosswords and Curses | 2022 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
Midlife Magic in Marshmallow is one of Keira Blackwood’s most fully realized settings, a small town where the supernatural is woven into the fabric of daily life and the residents have long since made their peace with it. The heroine arrives (or re-arrives) in Marshmallow and finds that the town has more layers than she remembered, not all of them involving spells and scrapbooking, though there is quite a bit of both.
The five books run from 2021 to 2022 and were written during a particularly productive stretch for Blackwood. Sweatpants and Spells establishes the town and its rhythms, and each subsequent book adds more depth to the community while tracking the heroine’s growing comfort with her own magical abilities and her feelings for the man (or creature) who keeps showing up in her orbit.
The cozy tone sets this series apart from Blackwood’s more action-forward shifter romances. Things still get dramatic, and the romance has real heat, but the overall mood is warm and funny rather than urgent. Readers who like their paranormal romance with a cup of tea in hand will find Marshmallow a comfortable place to spend five books.