Suspense. Deception. Romance. A cozy start to the series that readers are calling addictive, spellbinding, and intelligent. The Elemental Witch Trials will take readers who are craving something deeper on an emotional journey.
Shielded from the adversity that reaching her magical potential would have attracted, elemental witch, Gwen Hensley, finds herself disadvantaged in a web of betrayal. As she seeks to untangle the mystery of who killed her grandmother, with the help of her familiar, Lewis, and the enigmatic next-door neighbor, Sebastian, Gwen starts on a path that will awaken a power within as dangerous as the secrets that kept her from it. The closer she looks, the harder it becomes to decide who is a friend and who might be the link between her family’s dark past and its tragic present.
The series begins on earth with largely human threats. However, as the series progresses, darkness and sorrow shape Gwen into a creature coveted by rulers of multi-realm kingdoms, while she fights to hold on to the light in her soul and protect her family.
Read the whole series and discover that when witches and vampires collide the ever after isn’t so happy.
Our Review
Blessedly Bound is such a different premise, an intriguing and unusual story.
I have never read an intelligent book about witches before, and found this one both well written and fascinating. I will definitely be reading more of the series.
The story begins with Gwen living an ordinary life and doing all the ordinary things, unaware of her destiny. She seems a very vulnerable and likeable woman, someone who cares about her family and loves to knit. Someone just like you and me, in fact.
This first book sets the scene for both the relationships and discoveries in Gwen’s life. She has to learn so much in the beginning about her life and her future .
When she meets Sebastian, her new next-door neighbour, I didn’t approve of the devastating effect he had on Gwen, but you couldn’t argue with the chemistry between them. I hoped she would fall in love with Lewis, as I had. He was so loyal to Gwen, but forced to compete with Sebastian on so many levels.
However, just who should Gwen trust?
I shall be reading the second book in the series to find out!
“She did not get a feeling of danger from him. Her instincts told her the opposite. She felt a natural pull toward him. It felt like she knew him. Like they shared a link already. She smiled, sat on the couch, and tried to resist the urge to ask him about magic. The look in his eyes as he watched her said he also had something on his mind that he held back.”
Thank you to the author and to #RBRT for my free review copy!
Biography
LUCRETIA STANHOPE is the Tombstone award- winning author of a lot of things, about a lot of things, hopefully fascinating to read things. She lives in a small town in Kansas. It’s the kind of town you are afraid to be stranded in after dark, in case the creepy locals are actually vampires or satanic corn deity worshipers. Yes, there are cornfields all around the town. Seriously, that part is true. There is also a not so used rail station, really! And tons of creepy empty brick buildings, which would be moody fodder, if she would leave the house.
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