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Thorne Witch Series

Coming in 2025

The idea for The Thorne Witch novels stems from my desire to create entertaining fiction that provides an immersive escape for readers. Somewhere to hang out until the madness around us subsides. Magic and the supernatural against a contemporary backdrop is the perfect pallet for me. It’s what I like to read and what I enjoy writing. I hope you find a safe escape within the pages of these stories.

About The Thorne Witch Novels:

Every few generations, a witch is born without magic. It’s impossible to discern whether the defect is a result of the infant binding ceremony or an unlucky fluke of nature. Regardless, the results are the same, and devastating.

Adeline Thorne was such a witch. But everything changed the night a warlock risked her life—and a peace accord—to save his magic.

Witches and warlocks in the Pacific Northwest have been at peace for more than seventy years. The hard-won accord and the remedies it prescribes have kept the two magical factions in check.

Until now.

The warlock’s assault on Adeline created a hairline crack in the accord’s enamel, threatening the underlying truce. The only thing the witches and warlocks agree on is that a witch should never wield warlock magic. It’s too unpredictable. Too unstable. Too powerful.

About the Never Witch, Book 1:

In her witch’s blood, a warlock’s power awakens . . . and it could destroy her.

Adeline Thorne was born to a witch. But when the magic that should have been her birthright never came, rage and humiliation drove her into a reckless rebellion. She lost everything: her coven, her pride, and her brief, fiery marriage.

Years later, she’s built a quiet life in the Pacific Northwest, distant from all things magic. She’s a portrait painter, a big sister, loving aunt, and ex-wife. And that was enough. It had to be.

Until a convicted warlock, desperate to escape his fate, forces his magic into her. But warlock magic is lethal to witches, a slow death. And now it’s waking up. As the power manifests, Adeline knows she’s running out of time. With no other option, she turns to the last person she ever wanted to face again: the priestess who exiled her. A woman she despises. A woman who still holds all the power.

But the priestess’s help comes at a price. Assigned to protect her is Luke Churchwell, a brooding runecaster with his own secrets—secrets that tie him far too closely to the warlock who cursed her. The deeper Adeline is pulled into the coven’s hunt for the rogue warlock, the more she realizes her greatest threat may not be the magic inside her… but the man assigned to guard her.

If you love the dark magic of Rachel Griffin, the sharp dialogue of V.E. Schwab, and the emotional landscapes of Alix E. Harrow, you’ll be spellbound by The Never Witch.

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