I received a copy of this book from NetGalley to read in exchange for a fair review. I was perusing the lists of available books on the NetGalley website when the beautiful cover for this book caught my eye and then the name of the author Anne Stuart. I’d read and very much enjoyed a number of historicals by Anne Stuart most specifically the House of Rohan and the House of Russell series. I wondered if this was the same author as I didn’t realize she also wrote modern romances, so I looked her up and joy and bliss it was the same author. Bewitching Hour was originally published by Harlequin in 1986. Sybil (Saralee) Richardson has always felt out of place in her family of tall, beautiful, thin over achievers and after her marriage failed has retreated to a family cottage in rural Vermont where she is the proprietor of an Occult Book/gift shop and the Secretary of the local branch of the Society of Water Witches SOWW. Nicholas Wyndham a Harvard professor Fitzsimmons arrives in town to do some research on a book he is writing about water dowsing. He is everything that Sybil thinks she doesn’t want in a man tall, incredibly good looking, wealthy and very sceptical of the occult. So if you are looking for a very steamy holiday story with a bit of magic, a mystery, a nasty villain, a white witch, sparking dialogue, killer springer spaniels and lots of snow this would be your book. I raced through this book at first will be keeping my eye out for more of her modern books as this one was so much fun to read. Publishing Date November 24, 2017 #BewitchingHour. #NetGalley ( )