…..CHAPTER 5….. Phoebe smiled coolly at the two men as they accompanied little Cara into the classroom. Trailing behind them was a younger man, who parked himself by the door, trying and failing to squeeze himself into obscurity. She caught a flash of metal at his wrist. Self-consciously she hid Read more…
…..CHAPTER 4….. Guenevere straightened her dress shirt, checked the belt at her waist, and gave her dark hair a last check in the mirror. For the fifth time. “Come on, already!” Steven growled from outside her new apartment. Like every apartment, it was very small, a bedroom at the back Read more…
…..CHAPTER 3….. Out of eighty witches held captive in the Kipling’s illegal catchment, thirty-one of them had been released by that Wild witch. Oscar was outwardly pissed. Thirty-one new Wild witches to chase down. Of course, neither of them wanted to pin them down. But then, neither of them knew Read more…
…..CHAPTER 2….. Isaac stared out over the familiar yet surreal grounds of the Kipling estate. He remembered the location of most things, but considering he hadn’t been here in years, he wouldn’t put it past that old fart to have changed things. Running through the brush at the back of Read more…
…..CHAPTER 1….. The Rocky Mountains sprawled in the background, the air between him and the peaks to the west clear as flawless crystal. Oliver fidgeted in the passenger seat. His mind whirled with anxiety over the coming battle. Will this raid net us the final evidence we needed? Will we Read more…
Well, to celebrate, I’m gonna just go for it. What’s the old saying? Just do it! So I’m pulling the trigger, and I’m gonna post the first chapter of The Tame Ones, from the The Witches’ War pentalogy.
…..INTRODUCTION….. The Salem Witch trials succeeded. For all they were a farce of accusations against innocent people, people who were not in fact, witches, the trials produced—by simplest chance—the presence of true witches. On October 29, 1692, Governor Sir William Phips of the Massachusetts colony strode to his place of Read more…
For millennia, magic used to be sleight-of-hand, imagination, or devil’s work. Then it was documented. And then it was researched, categorized. Yet science still didn’t understand it—because the only ones who could use it were witches. And witches were feared. Agent of the Federal Bureau of Witchcraft and Registry, Witch Read more…