Cambric Creek: Wheel of the Year Books in Order

Cambric Creek: Wheel of the Year is a witchy slice of the larger Cambric Creek universe, told through novellas that follow the turning of the seasons. These stories center on the Brackenbridge witches in Oldetowne and the strange nonhuman neighbors who slip into their lives, blending cozy domestic magic with very intense romance.

The cycle begins with The Mabon Feast. Ladybug Brackenbridge, an autistic witch who has never quite fit inside her ancestral coven, is barely keeping her generational Victorian home from crumbling around her. Clients are scarce, repairs are endless, and the weight of being the next link in an old magical chain feels impossible. When she rents out the attic room to Anzan, a reserved spiderlike araneaen, she hopes for simple help with the mortgage.

What she gets instead is a tenant whose presence changes everything. Ladybug knows almost nothing about the spider folk, from their diet and faith to the ways their courtship works. As autumn deepens toward the harvest festival of Mabon, the house fills with stormy weather, simmer pots, and a growing tension that is equal parts fear, fascination, and hunger. The story leans hard into sensory detail, from the textures of webs to the comfort of ritual, while never losing sight of Ladybug’s social anxiety and loneliness.

The Wheel of the Year arc continues with further holidays and further tests. Later volumes follow Ladybug and Anzan as they navigate threats to his place in Cambric Creek, her complicated history with the coven that cast her out, and the shaky process of building a new circle on their own terms. Seasonal observances like Hexennacht and Samhain become chances to revisit old wounds, claim new identities, and decide which traditions are worth keeping.

Compared to the other Cambric Creek books, these stories feel a little quieter and more gothic, even while the heat level stays high. There is less focus on small town gossip and more on candlelit rooms, protective charms, and the question of who gets to define what a witch should look like. The romances are tender toward neurodivergent experience and toward the spiderlike lead, who is treated with curiosity rather than as a simple horror trope.

If you are drawn to seasonal rituals, found family covens, and heroines who have to invent their own way of being magical, Cambric Creek: Wheel of the Year is a natural starting point. Each book ties into the broader town, but the emphasis on one house, one couple, and the cycle of festivals makes the series feel like its own intimate, lantern lit corner of the larger world.