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Echo

In Elizabeth Marshalls world of blood witches, are a society kept secret from humans that is divided into five Coven’s, each dedicated to the power of a particular element—Excuro (Fire), Terra (Earth), Aqua (Water), Aeris (Air), and Animus (Spirit). On the day of their birth, all eighteen-year-olds must undergo an initiation with their Coven before leaving home for two years of training. Elizabeth grew up waiting for the day where she and her twin brother Phinley would join the trainee’s at Danverly University and finally become a full member of Excuro; only her initiation doesn’t go as planned and she isn’t the only one. Plagued by dreams that seem more like nightmares, draw her to familiar students she’s never really met outside of the waking world.

Now she must piece together the puzzle that only comes to her in pieces and struggle to determine what she really is, because she isn’t simply a Coven witch in training. She has a power of her own that no other Excuro has ever possessed after the Binding spell hundreds of years ago; complete control over the fire element. As if life’s not already complicated, a frightening romance with a sometimes echoing and sometimes irritating boy from her dreams wedges itself into the life that’s been chosen for her – but when students start to get attacked and go missing, she realizes that things might not always be what they seem. Setting out on a journey that can change her belief system, she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect life, she also learns that her secret just might help save those she love, or it might destroy everything.

Welcome to year one at Witch Danverly University, where there is still another year to go.

Are you ready?

250 pages, ebook

First published June 20, 2012