An Average Curse: A Tale of Witches and Magic (The Chronicles of Hawthorn Book 1) by Rue

Her world is in peril. Magick is her only hope. As of this morning, she still can’t cast a single spell.

On an island protected by an enchanted Mist, Flynn Hawthorn believes she has been cursed to live an average life—stripped of magick. She performs mundane tasks around the village and deals with a daily dose of disappointing her mother and the Grand Coven.

Her best friend Hazel devises a plan to fool their instructors by secretly pushing her own vast powers through Flynn during training sessions. The plan works flawlessly until a girl in their ceremonial magick class takes an unnatural interest in Flynn and Hazel. Is the strange girl linked to dark powers from beyond the Mist?

If the Shadow Witch has infiltrated their island’s defenses, can Flynn and Hazel keep up their charade or will the game they’re playing cost them their lives…

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Maybe the gift Flynn hoped for is a curse after all….

Young Flynn Hawthorn anxiously awaits the return of the initiates to Moa Bend. Normally she doesn’t look forward to her training sessions, but she’ll do anything to end her endless afternoons trapped in Mistress Tamsin’s Herb Hut.

Without warning, Flynn’s world turns upside down. Her best friend is missing and could be lost in Dreamwood Forest. Her mother, the High Priestess, finally tells Flynn the truth about her father— a truth that comes with more questions than answers. And somehow, the falcon she chose to train is triggering strange episodes of time-warped astral travel!

Flynn embarks on a journey to uncover long-awaited answers. Will she find a way to save her people from the growing threat in Southeil, or will she unwittingly put herself directly into the hands of the Shadow Witch?