Magic Happens | A Diana Hawthorne Holiday Novella

One pair of vintage Oxfords. One glowing ring. One very broken timeline.

Three days before Winter Solstice, Ren Garcia just wants to look put together—not like the guy whose love life and laundry have both imploded. A quick stop at Bellwether Vintage, a twenty-dollar pair of Oxfords, and…reality hiccups.

A stranger with a golden, time-bending ring walks into Inner Sanctum.
Diana Hawthorne vanishes in a circle of light.
Then the day resets.

Every loop gets worse. Sometimes Blake winds up bleeding. Sometimes the shop itself is rewritten. In every version, Sentinel—the secretive agency obsessed with “anomalies”—still comes for Diana…and Ren is the common denominator.

Enter Kyros: resurrected ex-Oracle assistant, Apollo’s favorite problem child, and the only person who knows how badly you can mess up a timeline and live to complain about it. By anchoring himself to Ren, Kyros joins the loop—and together they start pushing back. Testing the edges. Jumping forward to the damage. Reaching farther and farther back toward the moment everything went wrong.

If Ren and Kyros can’t outsmart Sentinel and undo the one choice that lit up their radar, Diana will lose her freedom, Blake will lose the life he almost trusts, and their found family will shatter before Solstice ever arrives.

Time may be fixed on its outcome.
Ren is not.

Magic Happens is a snarky, heart-squeezing holiday novella in the Diana Hawthorne Paranormal Women’s Fantasy series, perfect for readers who love: cursed objects, time loops, found-family Solstice vibes, and two chaos gremlins rewriting fate one bad decision at a time.