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Hushed, the fourth book in the Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas....

Natalia Moore is the new girl at Santa Anna Prep, and all she wants to do is fly under the radar -- get to her classes, meet a few friends, and try not to make a total fool of herself in the meantime. But when handsome and popular Campbell Elliot goes out of his way to be nice to the new girl, Natalia's plan to go unnoticed flies out the window.

Cam's hot, but he's completely off-limits. Raine Marsden, the most popular and meanest girl in school, has had her eye on him ever since the summer. And Raine doesn't like competition.

When Cam goes as far as inviting Natalia to the exclusive weekend party at Raine's house, Raine sets her sights on a new victim. But what Natalia doesn't know is that Raine and her friends are no ordinary mean girls. They have powers most people can only dream of, and nobody will stand in the way of what they want. And what Raine wants is Campbell.

Hushed is the fourth book in The Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas, a series that proves just how far true love will go and that nothing--not even pure evil--can change your destiny.

60 pages, Nook

First published February 18, 2011

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890 reviews179 followers
May 20, 2012
These books are fast becoming quite intense, the mystery is spell binding, I can't help wondering what the hell is going on...

This time Cam seems to have discovered something that is tied in with the 'goings on' but he can't prove it and Natalia looks as though she may be believing him. Becca and Aiden? Please!!!

I am dying to find out what the hell is going on, but even more, I want to know how it is going to be sorted!
Profile Image for Paula  Phillips.
5,675 reviews341 followers
March 12, 2020

Moving onto Book #4 Hushed, at the end of Book #3 Rumoured we read as Cam watched Raine and the girls perform their witchy spells. Hushed continues with Cam involving his friend Aiden from the first book - the friend who was left out and telling him that he is right about the Triad that they are witches. Cam finds a black butterfly necklace in Raine's locker and knows that this has something to do with her magic. With Aiden now knowing, things are heating up as Raine gets Becca to handle Aiden so he can stop snooping around and fall in line with her plans. Homecoming is coming up and Raine and Cam are going together which leaves Brody and Natalia to dance the night away together. Natalia is unsure about attending but her friend Anastasia pushes her to agree and say yes. Natalia also has been getting creepy texts from Derek and it has something to do with the butterflies she has been seeing. Will Cam be able to help Natalia make sense of what has been happening or will he fall deeper under Raine's spell before she can speak to him?

Like the previous books, Hushed - Book #4 was a quick read novella that ends on a cliffhanger.
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271 reviews96 followers
February 24, 2011
The 4th book in The Witches of Santa Anna series, and again I am a little disappointed in the length of this book, another 20 minute read.

Although the content of the book does not disappoint!
Again we are thrown into the world of Nat and Cam, and this time the secret of the Triad is out!

The discovery of a black butterfly necklace is all it takes to convince Nat that there is something strange going on with the 3 most popular girls in school, combined with a strange ex-boyfriend who keeps appearing and the new relationship between Cam's best friend and one of the triad I am dying to know what happens next, and hopefully the next book will wrap up the story.
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568 reviews27 followers
June 16, 2017
Hmm well now we’re finally getting to the nitty gritty. Which EXCUSE ME but I thought the parts to a book were introduction finding out a problem having a climax and then the conclusion. As much as I love these books I am kind of getting annoyed with this whole pretend book crap.
If the author just put these together or called them PARTS I’d get over it. But this epidemic of self published book nonsense is making my writing career unappealing to me. And that is not okay.
Overall this part is good I can kind of guess what’s going to happen yet I have no idea. I still love the love triangle happening but I’m wondering a few obvious things here.
Why didn’t Raine notice the necklace missing? What really is Brody’s involvement in it?
Profile Image for Angela.
213 reviews2 followers
January 28, 2018
Better than book 3 but another short book that only took me a half hour to read 😕😕😕
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991 reviews
January 4, 2012
So, I'm up to book 4 in this crazy, nutty teen witch series, and with each one being so short and random it's getting a little difficult to review them. But, here we go -- I'll do my best.

As we've learned in the last few books, Natalia, the new girl, has the hots for Cam, who also likes Natalia but is weirdly entangled with his loony ex Raine, and has additionally been threatened by his best friend Brody not to see Natalia (even though Brody is now, for some reason, pursuing Nat instead). As Nat and Cam have gotten closer, both have received random stalkerish threats, both have been semi-hallucinating and blacking out for no good reason, and both have been having dreams and visions of creepy black butterflies.

Being as slow as these folks are, it takes them a while to think that maybe Raine and her psycho "Triad" are witches -- until Cam randomly stalks Raine's locker and discovers a creepy black butterfly necklace, which somehow is the ticket to Cam and Nat realizing these chicks are insane. So now one of the popular witchy girls is stalking one of Cam's unpopular nerdy friends, and somehow Nat and Cam are both afraid they're going to be killed or trapped under some weird teenage magical spell.

Sounds random? It is. I'm pretty close to losing interest, but Il'l give this at least 2 more books, I think...
Profile Image for Christina (Christina's Book Corner).
915 reviews180 followers
September 9, 2011
Title : Hushed
Release Date :February 19th 2011

Review : BOOK 4 this book was very creepy in ways like the butterfly's cam finds a butterfly necklace in Riane's locker and he also thinks Brody and Riane are both in on this witch thing and they want to hurt Cam and Natalia also homecoming Riane asks Cam and Natalia isn't sure she even wants to ask Brody but her friend Anastasia tells her to because of the way he looks at her and when Cam shows Natlalia the necklace she knows something is wrong cause whenever something bad happens she sees a butterfly and she is getting stalker texts from her ex.

4 out of 5
Profile Image for Kayleigh {K-Books}.
1,187 reviews19 followers
February 26, 2011
I said it about rumored but Hushed is definitely my favourite of the series. In this book i started to really hate raine, with all the rumors she started to spread about natalia. i was really glad about the butterfly aspect of the book as i was wondering why there were butterfly's on every cover. overall this was such an awesome book even tho as usual super short. now i am going to be waiting very impatiently for the next book.
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323 reviews29 followers
February 25, 2011
Now I am really wanting to know what happens next! These little novellas do not last long to keep me in suspense because I read through them way too fast. Very interesting stuff. Now Cam and Natalia know too much about Raine. But is Brody in on it and can they save Aiden?
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3,053 reviews58 followers
January 9, 2013
I'm starting to lose interest with all of the abrupt endings in these books. Additionally, I 'm not too that I like one of the main characters, Campbell, very much. He is a little condescending and eliteist.
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355 reviews5 followers
July 21, 2013
Things are starting to get creepy! But there is something I don't get here. Are those three girls witches, vampires or demons? All I see all the time is that they can control people and suck the life out of them. Really I expected something more...witchy?
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1,057 reviews582 followers
February 23, 2011
Another quick read to a exciting series. I will look forward to the release of book 5 and hopefully things will get resolved :)
Profile Image for Catalina.
1,934 reviews67 followers
April 18, 2011
ugh I wish they would just get together already, they know they both want it. The ending really leaves you guessing!
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655 reviews664 followers
June 16, 2011
Not as good as the one before it.
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161 reviews14 followers
March 3, 2012
I am pretty sure this was the shortest yet! But I am really invested in seeing how the whole story turns out!
Profile Image for Kirby.
408 reviews2 followers
January 15, 2013
This series of books are really short answer didn't do much for me.... They didn't make much since and they kind of made me bored through out the series
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46 reviews
September 21, 2012


Same thing as previous reviews of that series. On to the next book...
Profile Image for Emma.
592 reviews16 followers
January 28, 2013
Slightly better end to this one, Still really short I can read each book within half hour or less. Fairly good story though, I am looking forward to seeing whats goign to happen.
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