When a tragic accident
takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth's foster mom--and
Raven's memory--she moves to New Orleans to live with her foster
mother's family and finish her senior year of high school.
Starting
over isn't easy. Raven remembers how to solve math equations and make
pasta, but she can't remember her favorite song or who she was before
the accident. When strange things start happening--impossible
things--Raven starts to think it might be better not to know who she was
in her previous life.
But as she grows closer to her foster
sister, Max, her new friends, and Tommy Torres, a guy who accepts her
for who she is now, Raven has to decide if she's ready to face what's
buried in the past...and the darkness building inside her.
A young adult fiction
anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and
futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race,
class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era.
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Glinda
the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle.
The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three
weird sisters from Macbeth.
History tells us women accused
of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried,
unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.
Bold. Powerful. Rebellious.
A
bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witch’s
healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores
her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future, women are
captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch
among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past, three
orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the
present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a
hurricane.
From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a
bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a
collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of
women working together—magically or mundanely--has long frightened
society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated
against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves
deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures
and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of
witchery that have yet to be explored.
The Dead must stay buried.
Karthia
is nothing like it used to be. The kingdom's borders are open for the
first time in nearly three hundred years, and raising the dead has been
outlawed. Odessa is determined to explore the world beyond Karthia's
waters, hoping to heal a heart broken in more ways than she can count.
But with Meredy joining the ocean voyage, vanquishing her sorrow will be
a difficult task.
Despite the daily reminder of the history they
share, Odessa and Meredy are fascinated when their journey takes them
to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets.
Odessa can't help being mesmerized by the new magic--and by the girl at
her side. But just as she and Meredy are beginning to explore the new
world, a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once.
Growing
political unrest on top of threats from foreign invaders means Odessa
and Meredy are thrust back into the lives they tried to leave behind
while specters from their past haunt their tenuous relationship.
Gathering a force big enough to ward off enemies seems impossible, until
one of Queen Valoria's mages creates a weapon that could make them
invincible. As danger continues to mount inside the palace, Odessa fears
that without the Dead, even the greatest invention won't be enough to
save their fates.
In this enthralling, heartrending sequel to
Reign of the Fallen, Odessa faces the fight of her life as the
boundaries between the Dead and the living are challenged in a way more
gruesome than ever before.
