Anneliese POV

“OUT OF THE QUESTION!”

The stern words from the Wildefell Witch Council leader Hyacinth Paine, the mother of Voynica Paine, made Anneliese gird her armor and unsheathe her wand for a battle royale.

Inside the main council chamber with its high vaulted ceiling, Councilwoman Paine, who had silver-colored antelope horns instead of Voynica’s black ones, sat at an oval-shaped marble table. Anneliese knew that both women belonged to the Tribe of Ammona, a ...