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A Dark and Secret Magic
A Dark and Secret Magic
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her mother's spellbook was written in blood-red ink, waiting for her.
Kate Goodwin has curated exactly the life she wants: a secluded cottage, a black cat for company, and days spent foraging herbs and mixing tinctures for the apothecary she runs. She's not much for people, and that's always suited her fine.
That quiet gets upended fast. Her sister Miranda talks her into hosting their coven's Halloween gathering — the witches' new year, and Kate's birthday besides — just as a man from her past turns up on her doorstep asking for sanctuary. Matthew Cypher isn't just an old complication; he's a practitioner of the kind of magic Kate was taught to avoid, and he's tricked her once before.
While she's juggling Matthew and coven politics, Kate stumbles on an old, magic-soaked book — and recognizes the handwriting inside as her late mother's. Her mother never once mentioned studying dark magic, and the discovery starts unraveling everything Kate thought she knew about her. Matthew is the only one she can bring herself to ask for help, and as the two of them dig into the book's secrets together, Kate has to decide how much of her mother's memory — and her own guarded heart — she's willing to let go of.
A cozy, autumnal witch romance with real Hades-and-Persephone undertones, for anyone who wants Halloween to last all year.
Wallis Kinney is a USA Today bestselling author who splits her creative energy between two loves: science and fairy tales, which have a funny way of showing up together in her books. She studied planetary science and molecular biology at the University of Colorado, then went on to earn a master's in economics from Purdue — proof that a witchy romance writer can absolutely also be a numbers person. She wrote this book as a gift for her older sister, in honor of all the Halloweens the two of them spent celebrating together growing up. When she's not writing, you'll find her traveling, running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, or filming videos about her writing process for YouTube. Wallis lives in Texas with her family.
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