BITE ME SOFTLY by TRACEY STUBBS

Some curses reveal who they truly are.

When a mysterious traveler crashes into The Lucky Goat Tavern and casts an impossible spell, gruff tavern owner Roan Alder wakes to find himself trapped inside his own inn — cut off from the world, surrounded by sleeping patrons, and haunted by fragments of a curse he can barely remember.

The only other person awake is Abigail: the relentlessly cheerful barmaid he’s spent months trying not to care about.

As days begin to loop strangely and magic creeps through the tavern walls, Roan and Abigail are forced into an uneasy partnership filled with candlelit dinners, secret attic discoveries, fresh bread at dawn, and feelings neither of them are prepared to face.

But curses always demand something in return.

And the closer Roan comes to breaking the spell, the more he fears Abigail may discover the beast he’s been hiding underneath all along.