A Peek at Strange Magic: Chapter 1
Zoe Sandoval entered her aunt’s house, then closed the front door behind her as she called out, “Aunt Luz? It’s Zoe.”
Only silence met her ears, which was exactly what she’d hoped for. Yes, her aunt — and the de la Paz clan’s current prima — had said she was going down to Mesa to have lunch with Zoe’s cousin Alexis, who was expecting her first child, but those plans could have changed. Fortunately, though, the big pueblo-style house that had come to Luz after the former prima’s — and Zoe’s grandmother’s — death was absolutely still. Luz’s husband David would be at work, of course, and their daughter, the only one of their three children who still technically lived at home, was attending school down in Tucson, at the University of Arizona.
Which meant Z
