I'm Kat Colmer, your host for this leg of the YA Scavenger Hunt! You are currently hunting on TEAM PURPLE. You'll find my exclusive content on another team purple blog where I've hidden a character casting board and the first chapter for my YA contemporary romance Can't Beat the Chemistry  due out on 20 April! Keep reading to the end of this post for another awesome bonus prize opportunity! Originally organized by author Colleen Houck, this bi-annual scavenger hunt is a way for readers to access exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes!
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But that's enough of the formal stuff. Let's introduce the author I'm hosting for the hunt. Debbie Manber Kupfer! Debbie grew up in London but somehow ended up in St. Louis, where she works as a writer, editor, and freelance puzzle constructor of word puzzles and logic problems. She lives with her husband, two children and two very opinionated felines. She believes that with enough tea and dark chocolate you can achieve anything!

Debbie is showcasing the first in her P.A.W.S Saga ... ​About P.A.W.S When Miri receives a silver cat charm from her omama, Celia, on the night before Celia dies she has no idea that the charm holds a secret, a powerful magic that saved her omama’s life and is about to make Miri’s a whole lot more interesting.

Join Miri on a mysterious and supernatural journey with her new friends, members of an underground St. Louis society known as the Partnership for Animagi, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters, better known as P.A.W.S. P.A.W.S Bonus Material!
For her exclusive YASH content, Debbie is giving us a sneak preview from COTULA, Book 5 of the P.A.W.S Saga, out summer 2019: Mackenzie walked out into the cool autumn air. She wore the new tartan poncho her mum had given her for her birthday. The tartan was the pattern of her family’s clan and it was fastened with a pin shaped like a selkie, another birthday present, this one from her best friend, Roger.
Roger was fascinated with the selkies that sometimes teased them from the rocks in the bay. Mackenzie was actually scared of the selkies, but she didn’t want to show fear in front of her friend in case he laughed at her. After all they didn’t get out of the water, and she was determined never to swim. So what could possibly be the problem?
​The problem was that her family didn’t understand. They were blessed with magic, you see. All of the family had chosen animagus forms and all had chosen a form that swam.
Sea lions, seals, even a walrus, and sea otters aplenty. Mackenzie on the other hand wanted to be a bird. She wanted to fly. She studied the books that she’d found in their meagre magical library in the P.A.W.S. Institute of Scotland, but there were very few about the process of becoming a bird.
Mackenzie asked if she couldn’t maybe spend a term in London P.A.W.S. “What for?” said her father. “We have everything we need here. Why do you need to go gallivanting off to those Southerners?”
“I want to fly, Pa!”
“You can fly through the water like the rest of us or be a gull like Thomas.”
“I don’t want to be a gull. I want to fly high.”
Mackenzie drew the poncho around her and walked towards the rock for her planned meeting. Her parents were unaware that she’d been meeting with the witch, Grisela. They wouldn’t approve. “Wrong kind of magic,” they would say. But Grisela had promised she would teach Mackenzie to fly.
As she neared the rock she could see the selkies diving in and out of the tumbling waves, their raucous laughter assaulting her ears. She looked away. If you didn’t focus on them, they left you alone.
Grisela was waiting for her.
“Are you ready for your lesson, wee one?”
“I think so,” said Mackenzie nervously glancing over towards the selkies.
“They cannot harm you unless you give them permission.”
“Why would I do that?” asked Mackenzie.
“They are tricksy. They know how to play with their words, so before you know it, you are at their behest.”
“I’m never going to go in the water. They cannot get to me if I stay away. And once I’m old enough I’m going to move far from here, to a place a long way from the coast.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure of that. The sea pulls your family to it, whether you want it or not.”
“Not if I become a bird. As a hawk I could fly high into the sky. I could laugh at the selkies then.”
“Aye, you could, but you need to start with a smaller form. It is easier. I suggest we begin with a sparrow.”
Mackenzie looked a little sad. “But sparrows are so small and they are prey even to tom cats.”
“Nevertheless that is how we’ll begin,” said the witch.
Mackenzie had grimaced then. She wished her mother had agreed to send her to London to P.A.W.S., but she had been adamant that she could get all the magical training she needed in Scotland. She turned to Grisela. “Okay then, teach me.”
Grisela touched Mackenzie on the forehead and chanted a single word. Instantly the ground disappeared and Mackenzie found herself bobbing in between the clouds unable to control her flight. She looked down at her body, expecting to see sparrow wings, but she saw nothing.
“You are not yet a bird, Mackenzie,” said Grisela. “For that you will have to study each kind carefully in the library and watch them in the meadows. But I wanted to give you the gift of flight one time before you begin, so that you can see if this is truly what you want. Your family is bonded with the sea. Are you sure you do not want to be sea lion or an otter?”
“No,” said Mackenzie, trying to keep her balance. “This is what I want.”
In truth she was scared by the wind and the bouncing hither and thither. But she felt she’d learn to control it, and in any case she would not always be a sparrow, that was merely a stepping stone to larger more powerful birds.
She looked down. She could see the selkies sitting on the rock, but all this way up could no longer hear their taunting. Yes, flight was definitely the answer to her problems. Grisela let her circle amongst the clouds for a few minutes before she gently lowered her to the ground.
“Why did we stop?” asked Mackenzie pouting at the witch.
“That was just a taste,” said Grisela. “Tonight you are to go home and discover all you can about the humble sparrow then meet me back here tomorrow.”
Mackenzie was surprised to see the sun was setting. It hadn’t seemed like she had been with the witch for long and yet it had taken a whole afternoon. She hurried back to her home glancing back briefly at the rock where the selkies had been, but they had slid back into the water and the rock now hosted a single gull instead.
The gull flew up from the rock and landed by Mackenzie’s side squawking at her. “Oh, change back, please Thomas. I haven’t got time for this.”
The gull made one loud squawk of protest and then transformed into her older brother. Seagull was the only bird form that the Lindsay family had traditionally favored. When Mackenzie had said she wanted to fly the family had assumed she would be a gull, but seagull was the only bird form she was not interested in, especially as Thomas, her annoying older brother, had chosen this form. Gulls were limited. They didn’t fly high or go far from the water even when they were animagi. Mackenzie did not want to be restricted in this way.
Thomas shook his long black locks at her and sprayed her with specks of sea water. Mackenzie flinched and Thomas laughed, throwing back his head as if this was the best joke he’d heard in months, and not something he did almost every day to tease his sister.
“I saw you sitting with that witch again,” he said pouting at Mackenzie.
“So?” said Mackenzie. “She’s interesting and she’s going to teach me.”
“Ma could teach you or Da if you wanted to be a proper Lindsay.”
Mackenzie scowled at him. “Or they’d send me to P.A.W.S. like I wanted,” she mumbled under her breath.
“You know there’s no money for that,” said Thomas. “And there’s no point really. Lindsays have always stayed in Scotland. It works.”
“For you maybe,” said Mackenzie. “You like this dump. I want to fly away.”
“I can fly,” said Thomas pouting.
“Not very far,” said Mackenzie.
“You know there are seagulls on cruise ships, right? We may not be able to fly all the way in the air but we can sneak on board and have adventures.”
“And you plan to do that, do you?” said Mackenzie gazing at her brother, a challenge in her eyes.
“Maybe,” he said.
Mackenzie shook her head and laughed. She was pretty sure that her brother would never willingly leave Scotland. None of them would, except her. And at that moment she was more determined than ever to leave.
Here's where you can start reading the P.A.W.S saga today!
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