The
Binding Witch and the Bounty Hunter
The
Kate Roark Magic Series Book 2
by
Laura Rich
Genre:
YA Fantasy
Kate
thought she’d never unlock her powers—let alone trigger them by
creating a familiar out of a cross-eyed pigeon.
Before
she can celebrate the good news, a terrifying bounty hunter kidnaps
her mother. In a race against time to save her mother,
Kate runs afoul of a dragon, and even worse, the most feared
creatures in existence—the dreaded forest gnomes. To top it all
off, she discovers long-lost magical family members who maybe should
have stayed lost. Kate is finally a witch—but it just might kill
her.
If
you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars and iZombie, you’ll
be rooting for this strong, snarky teen girl on every page.
Book
Two of the Kate Roark Magic Series – discover this fast-paced,
fun-filled magical read today!
The
Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker
The
Kate Roark Magic Series Book 1
The
Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker is the first in a series and a
17,500 word novelette.
Growing
up homeschooled on the Renaissance Festival circuit is weird enough,
but when you're the daughter of a powerful binding witch who makes a
living as a fortune teller, and your best friend is a middle-aged
sari vendor, weird is relative.
Fifteen-year-old
Kate Roark desperately wants to be a witch but isn't - yet. It's not
likely at her age until she meets the Fortune Taker and gets a taste
of unimaginable power - but at what cost?
Forced
to choose between keeping stolen power or making her magic dreams
come true, her ultimate decision throws her entire world into
question.
Described
as "book candy", and "compulsively readable," The
Binding with and the Fortune Taker is the first in the Kate Roark
Magic Series from emerging YA fantasy writer, Laura Rich.
The
bird struggled, pushed to her feet, ruffled her blood-caked feathers, and
cooed.
I
smiled, though she still looked gruesome. I wondered if she would let me clean
her off. She stood perfectly still, and we stared at each other. The whites of
her eyes were actually gray flecked with gold, and she had black pupils of
surprising depth.
As
I continued to hold her gaze, waves of information flowed towards me. Flashes
of Gringo’s attack, the quest for food, the feeling of a mashed-up worm in my
mouth, and flight. Glorious flight. The only experience I could compare it to
was sticking my head out of the window of a moving car, but this was so much
more wild and uncontrolled. Dipping, gliding, climbing, soaring, banking,
communicating to other birds using the way my—her—body moved. It was
exhilarating—and terrifying.
It
was then that I realized why my mother used feathers in change magic. This was
exactly what change felt like.
Once
that idea hatched, I wanted to make sure I didn’t forget it. I wanted to lock
it away in a vessel to be visited later. Immediately a shape formed in my mind
to contain it: an orb of moonlit reeds that contrasted light and darkness. The
idea of change slid eagerly into the orb and filled its roundness. The weave
rearranged itself to seal off the ends, and a brilliant light lit up the whole
room. I yelped and collapsed on the table, unconscious.
“Are
you all right?” The voice was young, female, loud, and close.
I
jerked up with a gasp, drenched in sweat. “Who’s there?”
The
white pigeon on the table brushed my cheek with her outstretched wing tip and
tilted her head. The voice repeated directly in my mind, “I said, are you all
right?”
Laura
Rich is an emerging author of young adult fantasy fiction about
witches. She loves to read in a hammock with a glass of iced tea,
bake cookies, garden and dress up for Halloween as (you guessed it) a
witch. She lives in Texas with her family and works as full-time
project manager. Magic may be involved in pulling all this off.
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