Bookstores and Boomsticks

Meet Aleric "Alec" Thompson, your typical eighteen-year-old who helps his mother run the quaint bookstore, "Willow Hollow: Books and More!" With his father absent, Aleric's life is anything but ordinary. Yet, it takes a chance encounter with Nikolai, a nineteen-year-old claiming to be a witch, to truly shake things up. Despite Aleric's disbelief, their instant connection and their mothers' friendship throw him into a whirlwind of uncertainty.

While Aleric has been content with his mother's secrecy, cracks begin to form in his understanding of reality. Could witchcraft, dismissed as mere folklore, be more than meets the eye? As Aleric grapples with these questions, he can't help but find himself drawn to Nikolai's enigmatic ice-blue gaze...