Prodigal Daughters

by Micah House

Welcome back to Daihmler County, Alabama. This is the home of the Blanchard family. The Blanchards are a close-knit, loving southern family...who also happen to be witches. In their last adventure, Olympia Blanchard, her daughters, and her adult grandchildren came close to death fighting the werewolf killer plaguing the town. During the course of trying to outmaneuver him, Seth and Yasmine realized their lifelong love for one another. The battle against the wolf was epic and in the end he was destroyed--but not before leaving Fable Blanchard secretly with child. Seth and Yasmine are married now and the Blanchard family believes life is back to normal...but they could not be more wrong.
Come sit on Blanchard House porch and visit a spell, but don't get too cozy. The Autumn leaves aren't the only things changing as more problems emerge for the Blanchard witches. One of Olympia's daughters is missing, and the family must figure out why. Another daughter has herself a new beau, but he isn't who he appears to be. And Fable continues to conceal her secret pregnancy not knowing what the family will do if they discover her baby was fathered by the werewolf. While the love that fills Blanchard House may be magical, that love will be tested by secrets and new dangers in this second installment of the Blanchard Witches series.

294 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2023

About the author

As an author, the thing I desire most from my work is for it to have a meaningful impact on its audience. First and foremost, my job is to entertain you through character driven stories that also have action-packed excitement, page turning suspense, and jaw dropping twists. But secondly, I want to stir you. No matter what genre my novels fall into, I promise you will emotionally connect to the people on the page. I write from my experiences, therefore when one of my characters takes an emotional journey it is a journey I also have taken. Their tears are my tears. So, when a fan tells me I helped them through a devastating personal loss because one of my characters went through that very loss, THAT is what I write for.
As far as my personal writing style goes, I write the way I think. I prefer authors who get to the point. I do not need 3 pages describing the tapestry on the wall when I am reading a book. While I pay careful attention to constructing well fleshed out characters and descriptive settings, I strive to maintain a fast-paced novel, unless otherwise dictated by the overarching storyline. Therefore, my writing style, (I’ve been told, and hope is true for everyone) connects you emotionally to the characters quickly and keeps a steady pace of action, humor, and emotion so that readers do not lose interest before the story is fully told.

Reviews

[Leslie E McFall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gripping!!

Good luck putting this book down. Prodigal daughter is even better than book 1 of this delightful series. Book 3 can’t come soon enough!!

[Carolyn Breckinridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Large Southern families frequently carry reputations for having complex, eccentric and highly-dramatic lives all their own. Author Micah House has added pinches of magic, doses of ‘good,’ doses of ‘evil,’ and all kinds of bat wings and ground bones to cast the spell of a closely-knit family of witches who reside in West Alabama (actually, he reports, around Cottondale.) His second novel in the series, “The Blanchard Witches: Prodigal Daughters" begins with a crisis in witch jail, where one of the Blanchard family has been housed for approximately twenty years. She is separated from her soul, which glides as a shadow along the walls of the Blanchard home, while her body is kept alive but in a coma in the jail until her sentence is complete. Evil forces seek to keep her a prisoner for life, and once this is deduced by her family, a clever escape plan must be attempted. The Blanchard family is multi-generational and each witch possesses uniquely different abilities. There are also ‘normals’ in their family who have no magical powers but who offer love, support and human help. They are a multi-generational group headed by a wise matriarch named Olympia. As in all large families, there is much to consider. There is a question as to whether one young witch will bear a werewolf baby, given the baby’s lineage. Another grieving witch breaks the witches’ ethical code to quell her emotional pain. The author beautifully describes his work as a “scene-story,” where short chapters tumble together to create a whole where many types of love, forgiveness, violent battles for survival, and every-day living meet to create myriad subplots and the foundation for his third in the series.

[Vianey Relato · Rating 4 out of 5]

Back again with the Blanchards and oh boy was it a trip. Get ready for some gruesome deaths…..