A Hex and Hearth Anthology original short story

Sylvie Calloway hasn’t been home to Driftwood Pointe in fourteen years.

When her beloved grandmother June dies, Sylvie returns to settle the estate, sell the family cottage, and leave as quickly as possible. The last thing she wants is to reconnect with the magic she spent years trying to outrun—or the grief she’s been avoiding since the phone call that changed everything.

But Driftwood Pointe has other plans.

The cottage is waiting. So is June’s greenhouse, filled with impossible plants and secrets carefully preserved for the future. And then there’s Jonah Beaumont, the quiet, maddeningly handsome caretaker who has spent the last nineteen months tending both the property and the mysteries June left behind.

As Sylvie and Jonah work together to fulfill the final conditions of June’s will, strange things begin to awaken. Ancient vines bloom out of season. Old magic stirs beneath the town’s foundations. And Sylvie discovers that the gift she’s spent years suppressing may be the key to understanding the inheritance waiting for her.

Because some homes never stop calling you back.

And some inheritances are too powerful to be left behind.