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The Witch Collection
Three Maggie Shayne Classic Witch stories (not part of any of her series) now available in this Special Edition Boxed Set!
In Witch Moon, a teacher in small town is entangled in suspicion, when the deaths of some of her students have occult trappings. A young girl in need has asked for her help in understanding her own strange powers, but to help the child, means to put herself at further risk–especially with the girl’s gorgeous widowed father.
Everything She Does is Magick has a young doctor from a long line of witches, unaware she’s pre-destined to bear a very special baby. The father too, is pre-ordained. The catch is that her three aunts must keep him a virgin until the time comes! Hilarity ensues, in this deeply moving, fun romance.
Musketeer By Moonlight has a spunky PI in trouble, hiding out in the home of her eccentric aunt, and snooping through her Book of Shadows. She accidentally conjures a real live Musketeer, not knowing he is everything she’s been wishing for.
Enjoy these memorable, magical, breathlessly romantic stories from the author RT Book Reviews magazine calls, “one of the pre-eminent voices in paranormal romance today.”
In Witch Moon, a teacher in small town is entangled in suspicion, when the deaths of some of her students have occult trappings. A young girl in need has asked for her help in understanding her own strange powers, but to help the child, means to put herself at further risk–especially with the girl’s gorgeous widowed father.
Everything She Does is Magick has a young doctor from a long line of witches, unaware she’s pre-destined to bear a very special baby. The father too, is pre-ordained. The catch is that her three aunts must keep him a virgin until the time comes! Hilarity ensues, in this deeply moving, fun romance.
Musketeer By Moonlight has a spunky PI in trouble, hiding out in the home of her eccentric aunt, and snooping through her Book of Shadows. She accidentally conjures a real live Musketeer, not knowing he is everything she’s been wishing for.
Enjoy these memorable, magical, breathlessly romantic stories from the author RT Book Reviews magazine calls, “one of the pre-eminent voices in paranormal romance today.”
220 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 13, 2013
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About the author
Maggie Shayne
270 books2,584 followersI live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
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September 13, 2015
Terrifies stories about strong women w/o are witches
The first story about a teacher, who is also a witch, dreaming of being burned at the stake for harming her student. She falls for the date of the student, who suicides but it hasn't happened yet. The second book is about doctor who gift of hearing is threatened unless she makes love to a virgin? The three story in about a PI who is in trouble. She contour up a Musketeers. All of the stories are humorous in part, excellence reading.
S. Otto
The first story about a teacher, who is also a witch, dreaming of being burned at the stake for harming her student. She falls for the date of the student, who suicides but it hasn't happened yet. The second book is about doctor who gift of hearing is threatened unless she makes love to a virgin? The three story in about a PI who is in trouble. She contour up a Musketeers. All of the stories are humorous in part, excellence reading.
S. Otto
March 14, 2016
These books were not her best, I love Maggie's talent and her writing is unique. These left me wanting more, I believe there was much more to each story. With this being said I am planning on starting the Portal Series next. I am sure she will deliver! Just as she did with Eternal Love, the Immortal witch Series.
May 28, 2015
Another winning collection by Maggie Shayne
These witch stories of hers are almost compelling enough to convince me to consider organized religion. Almost.
Well considered story lines, fun characters, and female characters who don't require a man to be complete in themselves.
These witch stories of hers are almost compelling enough to convince me to consider organized religion. Almost.
Well considered story lines, fun characters, and female characters who don't require a man to be complete in themselves.
October 26, 2014
3 excellent stories
1 great set!
Love ,Magic ,
Strong characters,a must have for the lovers of Magic and Witches
1 great set!
Love ,Magic ,
Strong characters,a must have for the lovers of Magic and Witches
January 23, 2015
Awesome, great stories. A must read if you like a bit of magical romance. Great fillers, quick intriguing reads...all with perfect endings.
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February 1, 2015pure fluff but fun reading
September 1, 2015
I liked this set.
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