The first book in an inventive, heartwarming, and irreverent fantasy trilogy: a story about witches that breathes new life into the genre, by the author of Bordeterre.
When, at the ripe old age of fifteen, Ortie looked back on her childhood, that’s where she found herself: on Aunt Viv’s sofa, between her two sisters. Épine, a preteen as brilliant as she was contradictory, an endless source of slammed doors, who claimed 90% of their witch of a mother’s attention. And little Ronce, who had a very personal way of occupying the remaining 10%. That was the time when everything went off the rails. That was when Ortie committed a major blunder, one that paved the way for some very serious problems.
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