Gertrude Nightshade never thought that she'd be heartbroken right before Halloween.

A busy potion witch in the middle of Holiday Village with a thriving shop, Gertrude thought that she'd be with her werewolf boyfriend forever. That is, until he unceremoniously dumps her at the busiest time in her career. While drowning her sorrows in pumpkin ale (and a mug of ill-advised peppermint schnapps), Gertrude drunkenly decides to put together the ultimate heartbreak healing potion, drinks it and goes to bed. But when she wakes up, she's not alone.

Vlad Everdark is the charming vampire mayor of the Halloween Neighborhood of Holiday Village.

The last thing he expects is to wake up in bed with the beautiful, hungover witch who sells him his morning brew. The one he's been secretly dreaming about for years. Not only that, but they are tethered together at the wrist with an unbreakable magic red string that doesn't allow them to go more than six feet away from each other.

Halloween is only days away, the biggest night of the year for both of them.

Can they break the hex that is keeping them together? And, as they spend more time with each other, will they find that they want to?

Dura ka Woreki has always been a shieldmaiden of valor and duty.

Fighting alongside her cousin, King Rognar, she can't imagine that she would ever have to pick between her honor and her heart. Until, in the heat of battle, her Mating Instinct awakens for an enemy soldier she has sworn to kill. When she makes an impulsive decision she can't take back, Dura saves the soldier and spirits him off into the woods where they can hide, abandoning her allegiance for the first time.

Marvik Grimble has only one person in the world that he cares about: his sister Queen Adalind.

Forced by oath to protect her abuser, the twisted King Yorian, Marvik finds himself in the middle of a war that he knows he can't win. When he is gravely injured in battle, he accepts his death, only to find himself saved by the very one that almost killed him. At first, all he wants is to escape from this strange orcress, but as he gets to know the brave and feisty Dura, he is no longer sure what he wants.

Unable to go back home, they slowly fall for one another. But just as Marvik and Dura think they have found their happy end, they discover a danger that could rock the foundations of both Adrik and Orik.

Can they warn the people they love and find a way to be together or will the duty they've both always carried bring their doom?