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Hayle Coven Inheritance

I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn. The Challenge “Jagger Santos,” Coradine said, voice singsong and trying to be endearing while I gagged a little over her cutsie attempt to be coy. So gross. “This is the one I was telling you about.” He didn’t look at her, his hunger for the fight apparent. “Ethie Hayle,” he said, deep voice full of daggers. “I’ve been looking forward to this.” I could have said no. Just turned on my heel and left, walked away, got the hell out of there. Should have. It was one thing to fight my own coven for “fun” occasionally. A way to let off steam, to expend some of my pent up anger in a reasonably safe way that ensured if they didn’t like me, they at least stayed out of my way. But a witch from another territory? The Santos coven wasn’t exactly on GreatGram’s favorite list, either. This could only end badly. Ethie Hayle has spent her whole life sheltered by the coven, her powerful family and the fear that an unknown enemy could, at any moment, leap out of the veil and hurt her. Talk about smothering when all she wants is to have the freedoms her oh-so-special brother, Gabriel, seems to take for granted. But when a strange woman appears and offers her a gift, Ethie discovers the concerns her mother and great-grandmother have harbored aren’t all that ridiculous after all and that there are powers in the Universe she can’t imagine…

Patti Larsen · Fantasy
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Chapter 57: Personal Vendetta

Back in the house at last, I found Reena and Mathias on their way to look for me, almost running into them in the back hallway.

"We're leaving," she said, shrugged. "Coming with us or staying with these morons?" That was one thing about Reena, she didn't pull punches.

I want to stay. That from Leah while I inhaled and nodded in agreement to her. "We're staying," I said. "I think they need us. And there's more to this than hunting and killing Viviana Tepes." Though that idea now appealed more than ever, even to Leah, who seemed to anticipate it with great delight. Considering we finally seemed to have an edge over her, I was agreeable for the time being.

But it wasn't just her we had to worry about and I was big enough-and Hayle enough-to accept my personal vendetta could wait.

"We're going to hunt the Faithful leader for now," Mathias said, grumbling anger in his voice. "I can't believe I missed this."