Heather Blake Books in Order

If you want Salem witches and cozy sleuthing: It Takes a Witch → A Witch Before Dying → The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy
If you prefer Southern charm and potion-shop trouble: A Potion to Die For → One Potion in the Grave → Ghost of a Potion
If you want the fullest Wishcraft arc: It Takes a Witch → Some Like It Witchy → The Witch and the Dead → A Witch to Remember
If you just want a quick sample: It Takes a Witch or A Potion to Die For

Heather Webber is the author behind the Heather Blake mysteries, and the split between those two names tells you a lot about her range as a writer. She grew up in a suburb of Boston, learned early to love New England, and later made her home in southwest Ohio, near Cincinnati, with her family.

As a young mother, she started trying to write novels and kept going.

An early boost came from short fiction. One of her first stories placed in a contest, then sold to a mystery magazine, which gave her a practical kind of encouragement, the useful sort that says this thing you are doing might actually work. Her first published books were romances, including Surrender, My Love, Secrets of the Heart, and Hearts Are Wild.

From there she widened the lane instead of sticking to one shelf. In the Nina Quinn mysteries, beginning with A Hoe Lot of Trouble, she writes about an Ohio landscaper whose work life and home life are equally good at attracting trouble. In the Lucy Valentine novels, starting with Truly, Madly, she shifts to Boston and adds psychic matchmaking, lost objects, and murder. Truly, Madly and Trouble in Spades were both Agatha Award nominees, which is a plain way of saying readers noticed her early.

Then came Heather Blake.

Under that name, Webber wrote the witchy cozy mysteries It Takes a Witch and A Potion to Die For, launching the Wishcraft and Magic Potion series. These books lean into magical towns, amateur sleuthing, and women who are trying to hold together work, love, family, and very inconvenient murders. Darcy Merriweather lands in Salem's Enchanted Village and learns she comes from a line of wish-granting witches. Carly Bell Hartwell runs a potion shop in Hitching Post, Alabama, where magic is helpful right up until it makes her look guilty.

In more recent years, writing as Heather Webber, she has moved toward stand-alone novels with a softer kind of magic. After visiting Alabama in 2007, she knew she wanted to set books there, and books such as Midnight at the Blackbird Café, South of the Buttonwood Tree, The Lights of Sugarberry Cove, and At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities made good on that promise. Readers tend to come to these novels for close-knit communities, family secrets, second chances, and a touch of wonder tucked into everyday life. The magic in these books is less about rules and spells, more about intuition, memory, healing, and the feeling that a place can keep its own stories.

What ties all of her work together is the way she builds community. Her heroines are often practical women who are a little overwhelmed, a little funny, and still willing to help. Families are messy. Towns gossip. Friends show up with food, opinions, and rescue plans. Even when there is grief or danger in the story, the books usually make room for comfort.

That part feels consistent.

Her author bios mention coffee and tea, birdwatching, crochet, baking, and time with family, and that sounds a lot like the fiction too. Whether she is writing a Salem witch mystery or an Alabama story about loss and homecoming, Webber tends to write toward connection. That may be the easiest way to understand both names on the cover: Heather Blake is where she plays with spells, suspects, and cozy murders, while Heather Webber is the broader home for mysteries, romance, and warmhearted magical realism.