A standalone novel in the Portland of the Spirit Knights series
Portland has a coven problem. Sixteen-year-old Sophie Harris wishes magic could solve all her problems. It created them, after all. It made her a disappointment, a pathetic waste of space in her momтАЩs coven. Every time they pat her on the head for being a good little girl, they push her down a little more. She canтАЩt protect herself or help with anything that matters, or so they tell her again and again.
Armed with new friends who care more than her family ever has, Sophie plunges into a quest to prove herself worthy to a mother who canтАЩt see her as anything but a weak child. One way or another, sheтАЩs going to try to force her mom to give her the respect her friends want her to believe she deserves. If sheтАЩs lucky, the dark secrets kept under lock and key by both of PortlandтАЩs covens wonтАЩt get in the way. If sheтАЩs even luckier, they wonтАЩt get anyone killed.
This story takes place after the Spirit Knights series.
Lee French is an author, an avid gamer, and active member of the Myth-Weavers online RPG community, where she is known for her fondness for Angry Ninja Squirrels of Doom. She is best known for her young-adult urban fantasy Spirit Knights series, which includes тАЬWar of the Rose Covens,тАЭ part of the USA Today bestselling collection Cursed Lands. She is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Northwest Independent WriterтАЩs Association and a municipal liaison for her NaNoWriMo region.
Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott CardтАЩs Ender novels, Ursula K. Le GuinтАЩs The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie AngierтАЩs Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazineтАЩs Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.