Chapter 1
Spellbooks and Stakings Excerpt
I guess it’s natural for parents to get emotional on their kid’s first day of school but, you know, that usually happens when the kid’s five and starting kindergarten — not when they’re adults beginning magic school.
I’m Zoe Clarke, I’m twenty-one, and until today I was a woefully untrained witch whose only living relative had no idea about any of it.
“What in tarnation do you mean, you’re a witch?” Grandma Elle shouted into the phone.
I hadn’t planned to turn our conversation into a supernatural coming out party when I called to catch up, but I was nervous about starting my first day at Veilside Academy of Magic and, well, things don’t always work out the way we plan, do they?
“It’s a long story—”
“Oh, sugar, I got all darn day to hear this
