Just when I thought that going to a new school could be a fresh start for me, I realise I couldn’t have been more wrong. Not only has my almost-boyfriend dubbed me “The Queen of Freaks,” but it turns out I’m way more powerful than anyone could have ever imagined. That would be all well and good if everything was as it should have been at the Winterwood Academy but what most people don’t know is that there’s danger inside the walls of the Academy far worse than anything we might face outside the Wardings. Students are dying, and other than my super hot sidekick, I’m the only one who knows that there is a serial killer on the loose. When my newfound powers attract the attention of one of the most dangerous witches the Winterwood Academy has ever seen, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it out alive.

Winterwood Academy Book 2: Buried

Suddenly a lightbulb flickered on in my head, and I finally found my voice again. “Could that be why my mother left me with Nicola? She was trying to protect me from something like that.”


Merrin’s eyes became soft, and she reached over to take hold of my hand. “Emelia was loyal to a fault. I have no doubt in my mind that if all of what I have said is the truth, then that is exactly what she was aiming to do.”


Suddenly everything made sense even though really nothing in my life made any sense at all.


“Whether I am right or not, we have to get you off campus and get you somewhere safe.” Merrin squeezed my hand, and for a moment, I felt as if I was suddenly connected to my mother. In the maternal way she was holding onto me, and in the fact that she had known Emelia, I could almost imagine that she was her, telling me why she had left me all those years ago without so much as an explanation.


Chapter 42