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

By the end of fifth period I’d learned that even witches took mathematics seriously.


My one saving grace was the fact that Booth was in the same class as me and every time I didn’t find myself thinking of what had happened with Lecturer Stevenson,Ifound my eyes wandering to him,sitting a couple of rows ahead of me.


My mind was a whirlwind of the things he’d told me and the fact that Lecturer Stevenson had mistaken me for some lost witch,so much so that she’d even called meby her name.


I was so focused on those things that I barely heard the bell ringing for the end of class and suddenly realised I had only finished half the worksheet that Lecturer Alexander had given me.


Just like all the other lecturers,he was tall and beautiful though he seemed much older than the others with salt and pepper hair and silver mixed into his close-cropped beard.I guess that’s what happens even to witches when you become ateacher of such a boring subject.


Chapter 63