Laced With Magic

Title: Laced with Magic
Author: Barbara Bretton
Series: Sugar Maple Series (Book 2)
Genre: Paranormal/Contemporary Romance



Luke and Chloe are together and happy now that they've banished Isadora in Casting Spells. They have only 2 things to worry about: Is Luke staying in Sugar Maple? and Is Chloe going to have a baby so she can keep the town safe.

Then Luke's ex-wife Karen shows up into town claiming to be making contact with she and Luke's dead daughter. Luke doesn't buy it and the goal is to get her out of town ASAP. The villagers of Sugar Maple don't like too many humans around and Karen makes 2, which is too many.

Unfortunately, they find out that Karen is seeing Steffie (the daughter). It's Isadora's doing. She's taken Steffie's spirit and put her in a little box and is going to torture her soul forever unless Chloe reverses her banishment. Since that's not happening they need to find another way to save Steffie and Sugar Maple.

I thought that this was a good second book to the first, and boy does it have a shocking ending. I'm thinking there must be more Sugar Maple books in the works because there is no way that this could be the end.

Chloe and Luke really seem to come far in their relationship and I was glad to see Chloe make a connection with Karen through their knitting. More secrets about Sugar Maple were also unfolded, such as why the Inn is always booked - which I'd been wondering for the whole first book.