Smoke and Mirrors: A Paranormal Witch Romance

Christine Pope

Oct 2021 · The Witches of Wheeler Park Book 9 · Dark Valentine Press

About this ebook

When the truth burns away her illusions, only one man can break her fall.

A few months ago, Skyler Fields didn’t believe witches were real. Until she was kidnapped and held prisoner in a facility that forced her to face the fact — she is one. And not just a run-of-the-broom witch with a cool party trick, either. She can control fire with a mere thought, and detect when other witches are nearby.

Freed with the help of a fellow prisoner, she follows her thumb to Arizona, where, she’s told, the Wilcox clan will give her the help she needs. She never expected the first Wilcox she meets to make her pulse race.

With his tall, dark good looks and smoke-gray eyes, Jasper Wilcox could easily distract Skyler from her mission. But she has questions about her heritage, and the buzzing in her head tells her she’s in the presence of a warlock who can get her the answers she so desperately craves.

As Skyler and Jasper work to peel away the lies surrounding the source of her gifts, they are irresistibly drawn together. But the deeper they dig, the greater the danger that the truth will tear them apart...and put the entire Wilcox clan in danger.

KEYWORDS: witch, witches, witch clan, witch family, soul mate, fated mate, psychic, Arizona, Jerome, Flagstaff, mining town, warlock love, wizard love, witch love, romantic novels, witches of Cleopatra Hill, road trip, Homeland Security, DHS, government agent, secret government program

Ratings and reviews

A great conclusion to a superb series! The Wilcox Clan's attempt at finding "orphan" witches hasn't exactly been fruitful. But when one literally turns up on the doorstep, claiming to have been sent by Nathan, they won't turn her away - even when her story is quite fanciful. After all, they dismantled Daedalus and all its data collecting. Didn't they? Skyler is made of strong stuff. And though it was a stupid, drunken mistake that led to her outing herself to the bad guys, she won't leave her fellow inmates hanging. Nathan wanted her to find the Wilcoxes and send help and that's just what she'll do. She just never expected to have such a visceral reaction to her first Wilcox! Jasper gives himself a hard time over not having much ambition in life. He's happy with his handyman services and living out in the middle of nowhere. He doesn't need the money that he gets as a stipend really so it just keeps building up in the bank. But when he meets Skyler he gets a new purpose in life, one he never expected to have, keep her safe. She may or may not be his "one" but he's not going to land that on her when she is still reeling from the whole "witch" thing! There is plenty of action, teleporting, and generally getting in the way of the East Coast baddie who is after Skyler. The big reveal was awesome and I was only let down in that they didn't fry his a$$! Kelly has been lurking around as the former assistant of Agent Lentz and I'm so happy that she and a certain someone may get their own HEA!

Smoke and Mirrors Book 9 of The Witches of Wheeler Park brings yet another “Orphan Witch” in the mist. Orphan meaning a person who was born outside of a Witch Clan. Skyler Fields is such a person and only to find out she’s an actual witch when she’s kidnapped and held against her will in a government facility. Her well organized life has now taken a turn that is not significant at all. Yet meeting up with tall and handsome Jasper Wilcox, a Wilcox Clan Warlock, makes it all worthwhile by resolving where Skyler really belongs. I definitely recommend this book along with the other 8 books in the series.

This was a very nice conclusion to the Witches of Wheeler Park series. The relationship between Jasper Wilcox and Skyler Fields was entertaining from beginning to story conclusion. Skyler is kidnapped, imprisoned, escapes her captors after having the bombshell of being a witch dropped on her and flees to the Arizona Wilcox witch clan for assistance. She and Jasper fall for each other and proceed to explore the greater Arizona area and their developing relationship. Christine Pope does a really great job of bringing Arizona and the lifestyle to life in her books. This book also pulls characters and storyline from the previous books in the series into this conclusion, wrapping up the series in a most satisfying way.

About the author

USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in grade school. Her work includes paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and science fiction/space opera romance. She makes her home in New Mexico.