Everyone around me gets hurt. I hate the thought of leaving my friends alone, but the Winterwood Academy is no longer a safe haven for me. Everybody thinks that I’m dead and I want to keep it that way before the one who put me six feet under learns that I’m back from the dead. But before I have time to escape, the arrival of my father and the Witch Council brings a whole new set of troubles my way. Not only am I to discover that I have a twin sister, but someone I trusted has betrayed me. I have to get away from this cursed academy. An inexperienced witch like me wouldn’t last long in the real world. I’m glad Merrin found me a place to stay with a nice old lady and a seriously hot grandson -- Matthew. Stay low, resist the urge to tell someone I care that I’m alive, and don’t draw attention to myself. That’s what I should do. It shouldn’t be hard, but nothing in my life is ever easy. A crazy attraction for Matthew and bumping into an old friend and my former nemesis at a party are the least of my problems. Add an almost deadly werewolf attack, a sexy hunter with a short temper, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster. How am I supposed to get my life together when everything just keeps exploding in my face?

Winterwood Academy Book 3: Hunted

“Who is to say that they cannot be both?” He replied with such cold contempt that I knew he had barely listened to her desperate pleas. “Don’t worry, Emelia, though you have wronged me terribly, I shall allow you to live long enough to see the outcome as long as you do not do anything stupid.”


Live long enough to see the outcome? Did that mean he intended to have her killed once all of this was over?


I probably shouldn’t have been too worried about all of that. The likelihood of me being around to find out was slim.


“Come, my love,” Celestria reached out with her free hand to grip hold of Augustus’s and bile began to rise in the back of my throat, “We have wasted far too much time in this Ungodly place.”


I couldn’t help but cringe as I watched my father turn to her. He removed his hand from hers just long enough to caress her cheek before he took hold of her fingers once more.


Chapter 63