Blood Witch_ Book Three - Cate Tiernan [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - Secrets
Chapter 2 - Picketts Road
Chapter 3 - Woodbane
Chapter 4 - Spell
Chapter 5 - Dagda
Chapter 6 - Communion
Chapter 7 - Symbols
Chapter 8 - Mùirn Beatha Dàn
Chapter 9 - Trust
Chapter 10 - Magesight
Chapter 11 - The Council
Chapter 12 - The Future
Chapter 13 - Dark Side
Chapter 14 - Scry
Chapter 15 - Presence
Chapter 16 - Hidden
Chapter 17 - Treasure
Chapter 18 - Sigils
Chapter 19 - Circle of Two
Chapter 20 - The Seeker
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With love to my circle
1
Secrets
For a moment the name hung in the air before me, wavering like a black insect in front of my eyes. Bradhadair! Also known as my birth mother, Maeve Riordan. I was holding her Book of Shadows, started when she first joined her mother’s coven, when she was fourteen. Her Wiccan name, Bradhadair, was Gaelic for “fire starter.” And I was reading words she had written in her very own hand—
“Morgan?”
I glanced up, startled. And then I felt a jolt of alarm.
My boyfriend, Cal Blaire, and his mother, Selene Belltower, stood at the entrance of the secret library. Their bodies were backlit by a shaft of light from the hall. Their faces were blank masks, hidden in shadow.
My breath caught in my throat. I had entered this room without permission. Not only had I kept Cal and our other friends waiting, I had trespassed in a private area of Selene’s house. I had no business being in this room, reading these books. This I knew. A hot flush of shame made my face burn.
But I couldn’t help myself. I was desperate for more knowledge—about Wicca, about my birth mother. After all, I’d only recently uncovered extraordinary secrets: that I’d been adopted; that my birth mother, a powerful witch, had been murdered, burned to death in a barn. But so many questions still remained unanswered. And now I had found Maeve Riordan’s Book of Shadows: her private book of spells, thoughts, and dreams. The key to her innermost life. If the answers I sought were anywhere, they were in this book. Subconsciously—in spite of my guilt—my hands tightened around it.
“Morgan?” Cal repeated. “What are you doing in here? I’ve been looking all over for you.”
“I’m sorry,” I said, the words rushing out. I looked around, wondering how I could explain being in this place. “Uh—”
“The others