Cate Martin
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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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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 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,...
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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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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....