Three’s a crowd. At least that’s what I’ve heard, and I’ve definitely come to learn that it’s true. My best friend’s new girlfriend is a complete pain in the ass, and if it wasn’t for me being on my last warning at Gilford High, I’d definitely do something about it. The consequences of my doing so aren’t just your usual slap on the wrist kind of punishments. When strange things begin to happen, and my eyes start to freaking GLOW, I’m whisked away to ... you guessed it ... the Winterwood Academy for the ‘Gifted.’ I don’t feel very gifted. In fact, I feel like the biggest freak in an entire school of freaks. As the hottest guy at the Academy would say, “I’m the Queen of Freaks,” but coming from him, it’s actually kind of sweet. Oh, and did I forget to mention that not only am I having strange encounters with a Goddamn Goddess, I’m also hearing voices in my head, and there’s a book in the Academy library that’s actually TALKING to me! They say that only a true Winterwood Witch is capable of opening that book, so why the hell does it want anything to do with me?

Winterwood Academy Book 1: Gifted

“Celestria came with some other lecturers,and they took her away,but she’s obviously dead.You could tell by the way they looked at her.”Keeya shivered as she spoke,and it passed right to me.


“Obviously she was dead,”Luci insisted.“I saw the way her eyes rolled back in her head.”


“Yeah and don’t forget the way the light seemed to go out of her like someone blew out a candle.”Keeya shivered again,and the image she conjured up in my mind wasn’t one I wanted to have.


“Witches don’t just drop dead like that.”Booth shook his head,and I could see the cogs turning in his mind,“Even when we are really sick,our bodies fight it better than any human would.”


“That’s...that’s how it happened with Melanie,”Zoe said quietly,and when I looked down at her she was gazing into empty air,seemingly remembering something from the past.Her face was the whitest of them all,and she seemed almost as though she was lost.


“Who’s Melanie?”I asked,unsure whether I should have asked at all.


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