Hexes Go Well with Tequila

Author: LeAnna Ehrsam Title: Hexes Go Well with Tequila Publisher: Hay House Date Published: 10/13/2026

Read Dates: 09/05/2026- 09/06/2026
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Hexes Go Well with Tequila is a single POV romance/women’s fiction/ cozy fantasy book. Ursula is feeling invisible in her life when she receives an invitation to move into a magical home in Salem. Once she arrives in town, she meets a group of women who help her forge strong bonds of friendship, a grumpy town bachelor who gets under her skin but stays on her mind, and a cast of locals who vary between welcoming and wary. When the new friends drunkenly hex those who’ve done them wrong, and wake up to find their hexes took root, Ursula realizes magic might be more real than she can grasp. But finding herself in the middle of a modern-day witch hunt wasn’t in her plans, and now she and her new friends have to find a way to put right past wrongs!

I really enjoyed the idea behind this one, and it’s a cozy magical story that’s perfect for this time of year. The writing style wasn’t quite for me, but if you like a lot of descriptive language and inner reflection, it would definitely be a good pick. I enjoyed the coven of witchy friends and themes of friendship and finding yourself; I liked the idea of the grumpy & cursed town bachelor who just wants to provide stability for his surly teenage niece, and I found the local politics and historical drama to be an interesting angle. It did feel, though, that the book was trying to fit too much in and sometimes sacrificed a bit of each in order to do so. I think any two (in any combination) would have worked, but all three left me feeling a little shortchanged all around. Still, I’d love a magical witchy house that knows what I need, so sign me up! 

From the moment Ursula Cambridge, a 38-year-old woman from the Midwest, realizes she's become invisible in her life and relationship, she and her Irish Wolfhound, Casper get a magical invitation to live in The Lost Souls House in Salem, Massachusetts. 

There, she finds herself immersed in a magical town, living in a house with a graveyard that hosts the lost souls, one of Salem's mysteries that keeps the town and tourists guessing, and some would do anything to keep their dark origin a mystery. 

As she struggles to find her footing in this town, four women come around her, showing her the importance of community, friendship, and magical camaraderie when they wake up with more than margarita hangovers and find that their playful graveyard hexes worked.  

When Ursula bumps into the town bachelor who is rumored to be cursed, she tries to steer clear of his unreasonably grumpy disposition but finds herself drawn to his surly, yet vulnerable, teenage niece Bess, who forms an attachment to Ursula.

Thrown into the middle of a modern-day witch hunt, Ursula has to navigate a mysterious world of magic and mystery, political warfare, and passionate tension with the man who has sworn off women, who bears a striking resemblance to the paper towel Brawny Man. Hexes Go Well With Tequila will bring you on a whimsical journey of found family, and found self, uncovering a centuries-old mystery of ten lost souls and fighting for invisible women.