Author’s Note
Writing a story set in the past of a real place is always a challenge. Working with the records of a town like Flagstaff, which really was the Wild West back in the 1880s, is even more of a challenge. In Spellbound, I did my best to blend the world of nineteenth-century Flagstaff with the world of my witch clans. Some of the people you read about in the novel — Mrs. Marshall, Reverend Pierce, Mr. Brannen — did truly exist, although some license was taken to give the school two teachers, while the Methodist church was actually built a year or so later than depicted here. Other people and locations were invented, although I tried to make sure I didn’t write anything that would have been hugely out of place during the period.
My thanks to Platt Cline, who wrote Mountain Town a
