Publisher's Synopsis
A cauldron of trouble is brewing in Valloaria ... Me sister loved me. I could see it in every worry-etched line on her face. I rested me hand on hers, looked her eye to eye, and said, "If it was one of ye bairns, ye'd go too." She held me gaze for a moment, and then nodded. "What will ye do?" "Find Adorabelle and bring her home." "But what will ye do if the witches won't allow it?" I hauled the small sack I'd previously packed onto me back and me muscles groaned, but I ignored the pain, squared me shoulders and headed out the door. "I willna be asking them." Sabrina and Lauren's tales entwine - linked by blood and magic. Sabrina, a newly fledged healer, is thrust out of her sheltered life at Mistress Florisah's healing school after the destruction of the witch-ancestor portraits. An anti-witchcraft militia is poised on Karthalon's borders threatening full scale genocide, unless Sabrina, the last of Lauren's bloodline, can destroy the Lodestone, and restore magic to Valloaria, but the Lodestone is buried deep within the heart of the Order's headquarters. Sabrina struggles to accept this suicide mission, and is distracted by her inappropriate affection for Micah, a prospect monk. Lauren's ghost haunts Sabrina's dreams as her diary reveals the tragic events behind Lauren's actions. With invasion imminent, Sabrina embarks on her quest armed only with a sliver of the Lodestone, and Lauren's diary but how can a lone girl prevail against an army? "I couldn't put it down!" "A real witches story for real witch/fantasy lovers. Loved it!" "Spellbinding!" The Witch-Hunt Series. Contains adult themes.
