When Kara was a young girl her mother was convicted of the worst crime of all…magic. Now Kara and her younger brother, Taff, are outcasts in their village because of their mother’s crime. One day a strange bird lures Kara into the forbidden forest, the Thickety, where she finds a book that she believes once belonged to her mother. The book allows Kara to perform spells, but as she performs more spells, a strange darkness takes over Kara making it hard for her to eat or sleep because all she can think about is doing more magic. When Kara finds out what she believes about her mother is a lie, her world begins to unravel. This is a dark book about the effect that power can have on people and it has a cliffhanger ending that will leave you dying for the next book in the series.
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February 2016
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