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Series 1/Chapter 11: THE BOOK OF ENTRY

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The Immurement of a witch  At Cressida's home, the silence after Caleb's death was defining. Ashe and Mae sat in the quite sitting room in a wash of glowing candle light in deep thoughts waiting for any word from Cressida and Gabrielle. The ticking of the grandfather clock marked each passing minute of silence like a long winded sigh of time groaning on and on until finally the front door cracked open. But no one stepped in. Ashe stood up, Mae too behind him as he lifted his arm out in a straight line to protect the spirit of the coven leader Mae. They stood there, in a frozen state unsure of who was about to walk through the door. Outside, still holding on to the front door was Cressida and Gabrielle. "When you go in, I just need you to know that I love you and I would never do anything to upset on purpose." Cressida said to a confused Gabrielle. "You're scaring me. What do you have behind that door that is going to help you get to Caspian and save Caitlyn? ...

Series 1/Chapter 10: A WICKED TRUTH

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The Broken Craine/Casador family  Cressida Craine's life had been filled with all the best things money could give. She was the child and heiress to a long line of wealthy Savannah socialites and businessmen. She was the golden girl of her family, often adored for smiling the right way, looking her best, being the perfect daughter, the daughter the Craine family held up on a pedestal.  All of the glitz and glamour of her past dulled quickly as Cressida grew. She fell into a deep depression. Lost interest in the world she was brought up in and eventually met a man that promised her more than what her family could give her. With this man, it wasn't about money or prestige or being a local famous person. He promised her a world of magic and passion and powers beyond her wildest dreams....if and only if, she could give him a son. In truth, she fell in love with this man, his dark features and smoldering eyes seemed to seep into her like a thick honey. Everything about him seemed t...

Series 1/Chapter 9: DEEPENING NIGHTMARES

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The Nightmare The Hotel St. Filipe in downtown Savannah was built to resemble a late 19th century Georgia townhouse but triple the size. All the hallways on all of the floors was carpeted with red carpet with 6 inch gold border. The walls were papered in light colored paper that when seen up close showed large bars of light gold and white stripes.  The light fixtures too were of the same time as the hotel was meant to emulate, all gold painted and shaped like ferns coming out of the walls with three extended light bubs covered in a foggy glass that illuminated a the yellow glow of electricity through the entire place. On this night, Caitlyn and Nick slept in their room that just the night before had seen an intruder, a shape-shifting witch morphing her face into Caitlyn's and tricking Nick into sleeping with her. Nick's own mind was aware of the strange feeling that the woman he slept with was not actually his beautiful Caitlyn, perhaps it was a dream, some sort of weird sleep ...