You live in a small town. You don't believe in love - or in magic. You make up a boyfriend just to get people off your back... and then, one quiet autumn afternoon in a bookstore, you meet the very boy you invented. Agatha Carroway has always preferred to stay out of sight - cozy rituals, quiet mornings, her favorite little bookshop, and a complete absence of romance. A fake boyfriend was supposed to be a harmless white lie, a polite way to stop her family and neighbors from asking questions she never wanted to answer. But when a stranger walks into the shop looking exactly like the perfect boy she once described - the same smile, the same eyes, the same inexplicable warmth - Agatha's carefully ordered world fractures. And when strange things begin happening around her, she can no longer ignore the truth she's denied her whole life: magic exists... and it's waking up inside her. And with that magic comes everything she's been hiding from herself. Now Agatha must figure out who this boy really is, why his appearance is tied to the changes stirring within her, and why feelings she buried long ago are suddenly returning. All of it unfolds as autumn settles over Seven Oaks - golden leaves, quiet mysteries, and the soft kind of magic that alters everything. A cozy fall romance about impossible encounters, awakening magic, and the moment love finds you - even when you don't believe in it. 🍂✨🍂

This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future. Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists. Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats. With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists. To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . . "Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series". [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T