Misty Hollow Magical Cozy Mysteries Books in Order

The Misty Hollow books lean fully into magical small-town charm. The available setup introduces Amanda Blackthorne, a woman whose planned move goes badly wrong when her car dies near Misty Hollow, Vermont, in the middle of the night. She is already traveling with an unusual companion, the ghost of her Aunt Matilda, so the series wastes no time letting you know this world treats the supernatural as part inconvenience, part family baggage, and part opportunity.

Misty Hollow itself feels built for cozy mystery readers. There is an inn, a bakery, a bookstore, a local magic shop, and a handsome police officer named Zeke Parker waiting at the end of a rain-soaked wrong turn. The town is picturesque, but not in a bland way. It has its own magical rules, its own old names, and a sense that outsiders may stumble in by accident only to discover they were not entirely strangers after all.

Ghosts are part of daily life here.

That gives the series a different texture from MacInerney's other work. The paranormal element is not hidden in the background, and it is not only there for atmosphere. Amanda can see and talk to Aunt Matilda, the innkeeper can see ghosts too, and the town seems comfortable with a level of oddness that would send most people running. For Amanda, who appears to be between jobs and between versions of her life, that weirdness may turn into a second chance.

The tone looks lighter and more openly whimsical than the werewolf books. Instead of pack politics and secret identities, the appeal here is the combination of enchantment, community, and the kind of trouble that comes from landing in a place where magic has roots. Amanda is not arriving as an expert. She is arriving confused, stranded, and a little desperate, which makes her a good guide for readers entering Misty Hollow for the first time.

There is also room for mystery. Even from the opening material, the town is full of unanswered questions, about Amanda's connection to the Blackthorne name, about the local ghosts, and about what exactly Misty Hollow expects from the people who end up there. That sense of discovery is part of the fun.

If you want your cozies with more ghosts, more overt magic, and a storybook Vermont setting, this series looks designed for that mood. It has the warm-shopfront appeal of a classic small-town cozy, but with enough supernatural strangeness to make every new street and every new face feel like the start of a spell.