The MacInness Legacy Books in Order

The MacInness Legacy is a historical paranormal romance story world set in Salem, Massachusetts, a century after the witch trials. These books mix romance with family secrets, old wounds, and supernatural gifts that are as dangerous as they are useful. The central idea is simple: the past does not stay buried just because a town would prefer it to.

Julie Moffett created the connected series with her sister, Sandy Moffett. The stories follow women whose unusual abilities link them to a long-standing family curse. Each book has its own romantic couple and immediate conflict, while the bigger story involves sisters, inherited magic, and the effort to keep the people they love safe.

In Light a Single Candle, also published as The Fireweaver, Bridget Goodwell is preparing for a respectable future in 1792 Salem. She has worked hard to hide her ability to create fire with her mind, knowing how quickly a gift like that could be judged in a town still shaped by the memory of witch trials. The return of Benjamin Hawkes, her first love, puts both her careful plans and her secret at risk.

The family history is the real problem.

The connected stories expand that world through women with different gifts and different relationships to Salem. Magic is not treated as an easy escape hatch. It brings fear, suspicion, responsibility, and difficult choices, especially for women whose independence already challenges the expectations of their time. The romances develop alongside threats that involve the curse and the people who might exploit it.

To Touch the Sky continues the blend of historical setting, romance, and paranormal danger. The Healer centers on Gillian Saunders, who has learned medicine and botany from her physician father and discovers she can heal wounded animals with her touch. When an injured doctor arrives at her door, her gift draws her back toward Salem, her birth family, and the unfinished business surrounding the curse.

These are historical romances first, with a paranormal thread running through them. Expect period detail, emotional reunions, dangerous secrets, and characters who must decide whether to hide what makes them different or use it. The books work best when read in sequence, beginning with Light a Single Candle / The Fireweaver, because the family connections and long-running curse gain weight as the story world opens up.

It is Salem, but not the tidy version from a postcard.