Cauldrons & Cabernet

In Cauldrons & Cabernet: Ten Slightly Questionable Nights of Wine, Witches, and Cats, Michelle Hoffmann serves up ten richly woven stories filled with humor, heartbreak, friendship, black cats, old secrets, moonlit rituals, emotional survival, and the kind of women who know exactly where the bodies are buried - emotionally, spiritually, and occasionally literally.

Inside these pages, sea witches survive storms beside the Atlantic, undead librarians critique pie crusts after resurrection, lonely women find healing over mozzarella sticks and moonwater, and wine-soaked covens gather to confess truths they've hidden for decades. Every story is layered with warmth, wit, and the beautiful mess of imperfect people trying to love one another well while navigating grief, aging, friendship, reinvention, and the strange magic of being truly seen.

These witches are not young chosen heroines in glittering fantasy worlds. They are women with aching knees, overdue bills, complicated pasts, fierce humor, emotional scars, and enough practical magic to survive another difficult week. Their cats are equally opinionated. Their wine choices are occasionally questionable. Their loyalty to one another is absolute.

Darkly funny, comforting, deeply human, and wrapped in candlelight, rainstorms, bookstores, kitchens, wineries, old houses, and black fur, Cauldrons & Cabernet is a cozy collection for readers who love stories about women growing older without growing smaller.

Pour a glass. Light a candle. Let the cats judge you in peace.