Should probably only give it only one or two stars but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't finish it but I was pretty disappointed in this story. What I thought was going to be a story about a business run by a family of headstrong women who have to deal with a major crisis, was actually a story about a bunch of weak women who use their magical powers and spell casting to get what they want in life. Don't get me wrong I don't mind an occasional magic story, loved Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic, but that story didn't sell itself as something else. You knew they were witches. This group of women were just whiney and weak! I can't think of anything else to describe them. The story lacked a sense of direction and listening to it on Audible, I had a bit of a hard time keeping the characters straight because I felt that they didn't give much of a backstory to the characters so that you could remember which one was which. Willow, Mia, Lucia, Grandma Serena (the only one of the bunch that I did like but was only featured in the first chapter). Then throw in the multiple secondary characters and you've got a big confusing mess of people. Could have been much better. ( )

beautiful story. i enjoyed getting the different point of views from the characters. ( )

This is the kind of book I love.
It's magical realism with very well written characters, the kind of book I try to save but I can't put down. ( )

I enjoyed this book but it did drag for me a little. The story line was fresh and the characters were well done. I love the dragonflies flitting in and out, I just wish it had a little more tug to keep me interested. Also it reminded me of Sara Addison Allen's Garden Spells, a must read if you like gardens and a little magic. ( )

When her marriage fails, Lucia, returns home to the family home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where her mother Willow & Mya (Lenore) run the family business.

The Lenore business is that of a making a secret scent that has been in the family's trademark for generations. The scent empowers those who are who are carefully chosen & groomed by the family for success.

When Mya's lust for power & control of the business takes over, Mya makes several bad business decisions. Those decisions threaten to destroy the Lenore family & business forever and awakens Mya's Great-Grandmother's curse upon her.

Not being able to trust Mya, Willow, subtly shifts the control of the business over to the unsuspecting Lucia.

This is a wonderful book filed with magic, romance, & one too many happy endings. It was engaging, evocative and from the beginning to the end it held my interest.

A delightful dose of Magickal realism. ( )