As written by the protagonist of the A CIRCLE OF UNCOMMON WITCHES, Doreen.
A is for Ambrose who is brooding and a little broken
C is for the corners of the world where the ghosts and monsters hide, where I will have to go to fight for true love and to make things right
I is for in the woods so dark and deep, for that is where this story will take me
R is for revenge, for Ambrose is seeking his on my family…and by proxy, will he also seek it against me?
C is for the calm winds that blow us up the cliffs on the Isle of Skye, where the blues of the water are as deep as the secrets Ambrose hides
L is for lies, for the biggest lie I keep is to myself and how I feel about this man who cursed my family
E is for the exit because each time I think I find one, it leads me to another door to another turn to another surprise
O is for open, because it isn’t just my heart that has to become that way
F is for falling because this world is one that I will fall through
U is for unfounded, because the world Ambrose and I discover is unlike any I have ever experienced
N is for night, for it is always pressing in
C is for clarity, for the power to see what others can’t and the willingness to use my gifts
O is for over, for I am not over or under anyone’s spell but my own
M is for magic, for every new task that is required of me to break the curse comes with a little magic and little cost
M is for Margot, my cousin and my heart, and who will do whatever it takes to save me
O is for obvious, for what I thought was true isn’t turning out to be that way
N is for noble, because it turns out the villains of my story might be the protagonists of their own
W is for without, for without a doubt I have had the power inside me all along
I is for ignoring the worry creeping in and the fear that I can’t, I won’t succeed
T is for time, because it’s always running out, and yet there must be enough for me to do what I need
C is for cost, because sometimes we agree to things before we realize what we have done
H is for happiness, because with true love it doesn’t have to be fleeting
E is for everything, because when you find what your heart has been looking for, everything comes together
S is for saying, saying yes to the story, and yes to yourself
A Novel
A witch generationally cursed to never find true love sets out to break the spell cast on her family, and must team up with the last person who wants to help her – the witch who set the curse in the first place.
Doreen MacKinnon is doomed to die of a broken heart - if she can’t break the centuries old curse placed on her family.
Three hundred years ago, Ambrose MacDonald, a powerful male witch, fell in love with a MacKinnon. And when the MacKinnon witches forbade him from seeing his love, by secretly hiding her away, he retaliated by cursing the family and its future generations to never find love. But it wasn’t without a cost. Now, Ambrose is imprisoned by those same witches, trapped in a tempest and doomed to outlive everyone he has ever loved.
But Doreen isn’t like the other MacKinnon witches. As the 13th generation of the MacKinnon line, Doreen is one of the most powerful witches in centuries… and one of the loneliest. So when she discovers where Ambrose has been trapped, she releases him to help her break the curse, once and for all. Ambrose agrees to help, but with his own motive: vengeance. He plans to use her as bait to enact his revenge on her family.
Together, they enter a series of trials, which take them to a castle in Scotland, off a cliff, and into a world beyond their wildest dreams. As they work together, sparks start to fly, but soon Doreen must choose how far she is willing to go to break the curse, and what she's willing to sacrifice.
Paige Crutcher's A Circle of Uncommon Witches is a story of adventure, romance, and destiny, that asks: is true love worth the cost?
Romance Paranormal | Action | Fiction Adventure [St. Martin's Griffin, On Sale: February 25, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9781250905543 / eISBN: 9781250905550]
A Curse within a Curse within a Curse?
Paige Crutcher is the author of THE ORPHAN WITCH. She is a former journalist, and her work appears in multiple anthologies and online publications. She is an artist and yogi, and when not writing, she prefers to spend her time trekking through the forest with her children, hunting for portals to new worlds.
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