Cate Martin
1) Charm School
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Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there.
But, then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will. Now Amanda packs a bag and heads to the big city, to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. And, it's not in just any neighborhood....
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BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES showcases a collection of mystery and crime stories set in Minnesota in days past."Long Night's Moon" features romance and crime both, set on the first New Year's Eve after the repeal of Prohibition. In "Tillie's Big Race", a young woman training for the big time gets caught up in a bank robbery when gangsters blow through her town. "The Elopement" tells the story of a gangster's daughter on the eve of her dreaded wedding....
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Tillie shares a name with the famous "Tillie the Terrible Swede". She also shares an ambition with that woman from Chicago. She longs to break all the records on her bike. But her home deep in the farmlands of northwest Minnesota offers few opportunities to test her.
Then a car full of city folks blows into her town. City folks in a fancy city car, carrying very city weapons.
Their target? Her town's bank. But when their getaway puts her grandfather...
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Spring, the season of renewal, finally arrives on the North Shore of Lake Superior, and Ingrid Torfa finds herself in a strange new situation.On vacation.She and her grandmother spend their days resting and recuperating in an old cabin overlooking the shores of Lake Superior. She can see modern ships pass by along the shipping lanes on the horizon. But everything around her? Strictly from the Viking Age. Not even the lost Norse village of Villmark...
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Ingrid Torfudottir lives a double life. Half she spends in Runde, a normal town on the North Shore of Lake Superior in modern day Minnesota. The other half she spends in Villmark, a village that exists outside of time, where descendants of Vikings still live following the old ways.On top of all that, she personally descends from a long line of volvas, women trained in the magical arts. Only she missed out on everything when she grew up away from Villmark....
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Winter out on the Minnesotan prairie in the 1880s tests the very souls of those who attempt to live and farm there.Christmastime usually means a celebration of light and warmth. But for some families, Christmastime means darkness and too much togetherness.As a blizzard rages, forcing one family to stay indoors, that togetherness pushes them all to the breaking point. How will the return of light find them?"On a Cold Winter's Night", a darker kind...
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Ingrid Torfa juggles two very different lives. In one she lives as an aspiring book illustrator in a quiet old fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior.But in the other she lives as an apprentice volva, a Viking Witch, in a lost Norse village that exists half in and half out of the real world.Balancing those two lives is trouble enough. But then a murder forces her to work in both worlds at once. She needs all her friends to help her solve...
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Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. But just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean it's easy to find.
Anna Olsen wants her sister to have all the best for her engagement party. And the best means champagne. Only scarcity thwarts her every attempt to find any. She knows where to find all she could ever want. But getting it? Not so easy.
George Andrews appreciates his mentor trying to find him a bride. But none of the candidates at his mentor's...
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Tabitha Greene knows more about magic than most. She might not be able to cast a workable spell to save her life, but she has read every magical tome and text in existence.Or so she thought. But then she hears of another book. A rare volume delineating an even rarer type of magic. A type of magic that just might be Tabitha's real calling.But when she tracks down the magical bookseller who owns the only known copy, she finds only a dead shop owner...
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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota.
The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.
All of the drawings she...
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Tabitha Greene loves her new life. Working at her uncles' bookstore, hanging with her friends, cuddling with her dog Houdini. When he allows it.Everything would be perfect. If only she could control her magic.But her bad luck with spells plagues her, setting off random sparks and triggering too many accidents. Her friends support her in her attempts to get it all under control. But her other neighbors around the Square display much less patience with...
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Ingrid Torfa lives two lives. In one she struggles to get by as a book illustrator in the tiny town of Runde on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.But in the other, she serves as a Norse witch, a volva, in the town of Villmark, where the descendants of a lost colony of Vikings hides inside a pocket dimension far from the reach of the modern world.Usually, balancing the needs of those two worlds dominate her time and energy.But this time,...
13) The Elopement
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In the 1920s, at the height of Prohibition, Sarah Eckhart holds no illusions about how her father earns his money. She knows he runs a dangerous, illegal empire.
Her wedding at their palatial summer home on the shores of White Bear Lake is the event of the summer.
But the man her father hand-picked as her groom, his chief lieutenant, turns her stomach. She only has one last chance for escape, if she dares to take it.
"The Elopement", a short story...
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Ingrid Torfa finds herself on the road with two of her closest friends, Kara and Nilda Mikkelsen. Not a hiking and camping trip for pleasure, but a mission of the utmost importance. The Thors disappeared months ago along with their mentor Frór. On a mission to protect Villmark, the village on the North Shore of Lake Superior where they still live like Vikings, hidden from the modern world, the Thors traveled far into the north of this magical realm....
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No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hits a dead end when no wizard will take her on as an apprentice.Just because, despite being descended from two long and prestigious lines of witches, her attempts to actually perform any magic always fail....
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During the Great Depression, the cash prizes offered for dance competitions lured hundreds of young people to literally dance until they dropped.
Alice and Henry traveled to Fargo determined to outlast all the other couples, dancing for days without more than momentary rest breaks. Alice's old nemesis Dorothy strives for the same goal.
But that many people killing themselves to get that much money? Guaranteed to draw cheats and con artists with...
17) Charm Offensive
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The Witches Three agreed to split up to better investigate their mother's pasts. Brianna lurks deep in the witchiest parts of Boston, researching in secret libraries and questioning covens that date back further than the English colonies. Sophie stalks mysterious wielders of magic through parts of the French Quarter of New Orleans that tourists never see. And Amanda, alone in Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies, breaks all...
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A surprise ring at the doorbell on Valentine's Day confirms Amanda Clarke's suspicions. Her friend Sophie DuBois left someone behind when she came to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. But the happy reunion grinds to a confusing halt when he asks about Sophie's quest to find her mother. And Amanda remembers she too came in search of answers about her own mother. Brianna Collins as well. All of them forgetting their mothers...
19) Old World Charm
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When nothing and no one holds you to the present, why not celebrate the new year 91 years ago?
So think Amanda Clarke and the rest of the Witches Three. They head back in time to ring in 1928, drinking bootleg champagne with the wealthiest members of St. Paul society, honest businessmen and gangsters and those who dwell where those categories overlap.
But when a surprise wedding engagement announcement becomes an even more surprising murder of the...
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Amanda Clarke possesses the rarest, most powerful form of magic: the ability to see and manipulate time itself. If only she knew how to use it. All she gets are vague impressions, little intuitions that compel her to act. When she pays a visit to her friend Nick's apartment, one of her witchy feelings is warning her about the apartment across the hall. The empty apartment. The apartment no one has gone in or out of in years. She promises Nick to follow...