Did Your Whole Order Have to Come?
READING AGE 12+
The morning after my mother chained Sir Julian Rook to my wrist with a spell neither of us had agreed to, his younger brother stormed into my family's cliffside fortress with a sword in his hand. "Witch! Let my brother go!" he shouted, right up until I turned around. Then Finn Rook forgot the rest of his speech. He had reason to. Before I became the daughter of the woman the Lantern Order called a monster, I had been the apprentice healer who dragged him out of a burning hospice and vanished before he could learn my real name. Now he and his brother were trapped inside Witchhold, my mother's bargain was closing around all three of us, and the only way to free Julian might cost me the one thing I had spent my life protecting. If Finn remembered who I used to be, could he believe who I was now?
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I stood outside the village hall three weeks later and watched the Order's wagon carry my mother toward the coast court.
She had been charged with unlawful binding and obstruction. The Order had also agreed to a formal review of its conduct at Witchhold. The healers were not cleared, but they had been released into the village under the……
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