Willow Creek & the Quiet War (The Witches of Willow Creek Book 2) by Lori Collins

Open magic invites attention—good and bad. The regional coven’s delegation offers “comfort” through permits, thresholds, and workshops that quietly centralize power. Emma sees performance metrics creeping into lives; Lily hears the anxious music under the coven’s smiles; Sophie spots a hush-binding hiding in the procedural language.With policy fights, midnight unbindings by the creek, and a town that prefers chores to fear, the sisters build a consent-first model for shared magic. Blackwood pivots from hunter to ally, Patricia chooses witness over gossip, and Willow Creek becomes a template—on its own terms.