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PLEASE NOTE: SASSAFRAS contains spoilers for the HAYLE COVEN NOVELS. Do not read before #7, FLESH AND BLOOD.


Banished

Power engulfed me, a strong hand stroking my fur as Ahbi's mind met mine. I wish you well, Sassafras, she sent. Do come to visit someday.

No time to respond, not while her magic lifted me, sent me forward, toward the gap in the veil, through it—

My new body fell, landed hard on cold, wet gravel, the light from the veil shining one more moment. It snapped shut behind me, leaving me alone in the cold dark.

When the demon boy Sassafras breaks Demonicon’s oldest law and strips the power of another, he is sentenced to death. Only his influential father’s pleading commutes Sass’s sentence to banishment. Forced into the body of a silver Persian, his power taken from him, he is dumped in the dark streets of Victorian London and left to die. Rescued by a young witch and integrated into her family, Sassafras finds purpose at last, guiding and loving the Hayle family, sharing his heart with the remarkable coven he claims as his own.

Hayle Coven Universe: Sassafras

I was happy to find Thaddea recovering some of her old vigor once the pressure of leadership was removed from her shoulders, though Orin, Pharo and I still doted on her as though she were-and she was-a precious gem requiring meticulous care.


Burdie's heavy-handed control of her daughter didn't lighten after Lilibeth's successful attempt to stand up to her mother. In fact, if anything, the pressure only worsened. I loved Burdie with all my heart, but she was a force to be reckoned with and refused to listen to anyone, even Gabriel, her own husband, when it came to Lilibeth.


"I don't know what to do with her," Gabriel confessed to me during a quiet walk in the woods after a particularly nasty battle over expectations of Lilibeth's future. "Burdie just can't seem to let go."


"You know her," I said. "She would never take no for an answer, nor back down from a fight. And Auburdeen always gets what she wants."


Gabriel's grin was small and sad. "She does, indeed, my friend."


Chapter 21: Lilibeth