It’s time to grab your favorite cozy beverage and curl up on the sofa with the complete set of Sanctuary Witch short stories. This bundle contains Brownie Removal Service, the sequel, Cakepops and Kitsune, the stand-alone Halloween novelette Soulstone Sanctuary, and the stand-alone novelette Cupid and Cupcakes.

Brownie Removal Service

Annette the Sanctuary Witch wants a comfortable, cozy Yuletide with fresh-baked gingersnap cookies and a cauldron of warm milk. What she gets is an invasion. Oh, the little cookie-eating puffballs who have taken over her kitchen are just fine. It’s the know-it-all hicks in the jacked up pickup truck who are going to regret not taking “no” for an answer.

Cakepops and Kitsune

Yuletide is here again, but Annette doesn’t feel much like celebrating. There’s no snow, her oven’s broken, but most of all, Midnight, her kitty-cat familiar, is missing. When an old annoyance knocks on her door, she wants nothing more than to yeet him back into the snowless winter cold. There’s just one problem: she’s still a sanctuary witch, and someone needs her help.

Warning: this story contains crafty fox spirits, belated baked goods, and sparky salamanders. Read with all due holiday cheer!

Soulstone Sanctuary

Annette the Sanctuary Witch is getting ready for All Hallow’s Eve by doing what all witches do: baking sugar cookies. When she invites a scared goblin girl to her small All Hallow’s Eve party, she brings along a soulstone. And where soulstones appear, troublesome ghosts aren’t far behind.

“There’s an orange dome-shield-thing outside my door, a now-invisible goblin girl passed out in my armchair, and a trio of murderous guardian pixies in my living room. A little bit of magic is called for…”

Cupid and Cupcakes

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Cupid is covered in unicorn poo.

Annette does not celebrate Valentine’s day. However, her attempts to ignore the holiday crumble when she discovers a barely-clad butt in her bushes. Someone’s out to kidnap an unexpectedly powerless Cupid, and now it’s up to Annette to resolve things.

Contains excessive amounts of unicorn poo and immortal gods who don’t remember to chew. This has-little-to-do-with-love-story is best read with a cup of wine, tea, or coffee in hand. Readers are cordially reminded that Annette will not intervene in ill-advised choking incidents.

Author’s Note: This is not your deliciously sizzling romantic fantasy. There is no love involved at all, in fact. This story is for those who spend their Valentine’s Day on the sofa with a fluffy blanket around their shoulders, a box of (self-bought) chocolates on the coffee table, and a cup of wine in one hand. Here’s to interminable hours of studiously ignoring relationship status. Let your life be cozy, independent, delicious, and – above all – humorous. And not dotted with unicorn poo.

(And if you’ve managed any of that, you’re doing better than Cupid is)

Happy Valentine’s Day

-K. A. Excell

Cupid and Cupcakes is the fourth published story in the sanctuary witch universe; however, it can be read independently.