• Fated match

• Insta-love

• Fast burn

• Series prequel novella

• Best-friends-to-lovers, Part 1

• Slow burn

• Fated match

• Series kick-off novel, including the aMUSEd backstory (main characters ages 15-25)

• Part 1 of Hunter & Brighid duo, cliffhanger ending leads into Dream Weaver (an interstitial scene is included in Down to the Sea)

• Reality dating show

• Best-friends-to-lovers

• Fast burn

• Fated match

• Comedy of errors

• Concludes the Hunter & Brighid duo

• HEA (happily-ever-after ending)

• Friends with benefits

• Fast burn

• Age gap

• Opt out if you don't want to know what happened off-the-page. You won't miss any of the core Brighid & Hunter story arc or main series arc. (Includes an interstitial scene after the epilogue of Once Upon a Dream, which serves as a prologue to Dream Weaver)

• Fated match

• Medium-fast burn

• Suspense/thriller element

• HEA

• Note: This book is a standalone in an interconnected series. The story overlaps with portions of Dream Weaver, and those wishing to avoid spoilers may want to read Once Upon a Dream and Dream Weaver first.

This story also overlaps with the author's Mystic Beach Mysteries contemporary fantasy series and includes potential spoilers for the first book in that series, Safe Harbour (due out in early 2023). But that book's story will be reshuffled in subsequent books, so it is not necessary to read Safe Harbour before Smoke on the Water, or at all. (But once you read Smoke on the Water, you may really want to read Safe Harbour to get answers to its mysteries.)

• First-love, second-chance

• Slow-medium burn

• Kitchen magic

• Enemy-to-lover (one-sided)

• Bad-boy/rockstar reformed

• Secrets revealed

• Fated match

• HEA

• Note: This book is a standalone in an interconnected series. The story overlaps with portions of Once Upon a Dream, Dream Weaver and Smoke on the Water, and those wishing to avoid spoilers may want to read those first.

• This story has two bonus scenes that are available exclusively to Mystic Beacon newsletter subscribers: "Building a Mystery" is available with Remind Me's release. "Centerfold," a bonus steamy short story, is also now available. Neither is integral to the story, but they should be read after reading Remind Me, as unanswered questions will be addressed.

• Single-parent, widow

• Slow burn

• HEA

• A hidden past

• Trauma survivor

• Suspense element

• Fast burn

• HEA

• Romantic rivals

• Recovery from trauma

• A hidden past, secrets

• HEA

• A 48-page Brighid & Hunter novelette (read after Once and Dream Weaver, and Down; includes no spoilers for subsequent books)

• A spooky mystery, Halloween fun, birthday surprises

• Even more HEA

• A bonus chapter for Remind Me (Spoilers for Remind Me: read after Remind Me; includes a teaser, but no spoilers, for Mad World)

• Answers the magical mystery of how Callie's phone wallpaper got changed

• New insight into two characters

• A 24-page Declan & Callie short story, takes place after Remind Me (Spoilers for Remind Me: read after Remind Me)

• A steamy birthday surprise

• Even more HEA