Hidden Gifts: A Free Paranormal Witch Romance (Enemies to Lovers Southwest Supernatural Love Story)

Christine Pope

Jan 2018 · The Witches of Canyon Road Book 1 · Dark Valentine Press

About this eBook

A match decreed by fate. A love awakened by magic…

Life as Rafael Castillo knows it is about to come to an end. Twenty-one years ago, his grandmother, then head witch of the Castillo clan, helped the McAllister clan defeat a dark wizard...for a price. The payment, Miranda McAllister, is now on her way to be his bride. A medieval arrangement, but there’s no naysaying Rafe’s mother, who is intent on carrying out his grandmother’s wishes.

Miranda’s parents tried everything — even revealing her lack of magical gifts — to break this unholy bargain, to no avail. As her Halloween birthday approaches, she journeys to Santa Fe, where the betrothed she’s never seen awaits.

Their first meeting is more like Beauty clashing with Beast than Cinderella dancing away with Prince Charming. But their first kiss is electric, triggering a storm of emotions and odd experiences that make Miranda wonder if her long-dormant magic is finally bursting from its shell.

However, even as Rafe and Miranda begin to grow closer, threads of dark magic are weaving a spell that could destroy their clans’ alliance…and any chance for love.

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Ratings and reviews

Boring and predictable. I'm not sure where all those twists and unexpected turns are written about in other reviews. Maybe they start at the halfway point because they're certainly not in the first 15 chapters. I only made it a quarter of the way through before I just gave up to look for something more gripping. I found myself annoyed every time I read the word Warlock misused. I mean it takes little research to learn that a Warlock is not a Male witch,but rather any male or female who has been kicked out or locked out of his or her coven due to braking one or more of the fundamental rules, particularly hurting people or practicing black magic. This might have just been your plain ol' vanilla romance. It would still be boring, but at least it wouldn't be annoying.

the story is good so far my only problem with it is it doesn't support large text higher then 100 and it ends up with one letter per page at 100 one line at the bottom can't be read as it doesn't have margins at about 80 it all fits perfectly but the writing is so small I get head aches reading it. But other then that the story has got a decent flow to it

The plot is very good, BUT... it waaaay too slow to unfold. I almost gave up reading. I skip so many pages... Not sure if the promising plot is enough to push me to buy the next novel...

About the author

Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in the sixth grade. Her work includes paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and science fiction/space opera romance. She fell under the Land of Enchantment’s spell while researching her Djinn Wars series and now makes her home in New Mexico.