Like with Juniper, their bond has severed and they haven’t corresponded since they were forced from their home years ago.Īfter events in Crow County leave her a wanted woman, Juniper flees, you can only take so much before you are pushed past a point where you break. Once closer than close, old resentments and animosity run deep, cuts have festered, poisoning over time and neither sister knows or cares that her sister is there too. Agnes and Bella, through different roads, both found their way to New Salem where they are living separate lives, Agnes as a factory-mill worker and Bella as a librarian. Since then, Juniper has heard nothing from either of her sisters, they left her behind, but they left each other behind too.

Several years ago, Agnes and Bella both left home abandoning Juniper to Crow County and their abusive and alcoholic father. The Once and Future Witches sees the three Eastwood sisters, Agnes Amaranth, Beatrice Belladonna and James Juniper stitch together the wounds of the past, reconcile their fractured relationship, break the chains, cast off the shackles of servitude, rise up and readdress the balance of power, bring witchcraft back into the world and wage war on oppression taking up the fight for women’s and witches rights in the city without sin of New Salem in 1893. I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote – and perhaps not even to live – the sisters must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches.

Fantasy / Historical Fantasy / Specualtive Fiction.

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