Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Source: Publisher
Genre: Fantasy / Paranormal
A story told in the spirit of A Discovery of Witches, THE ORPHAN WITCH is about the sisterhood of magic, and how one woman’s quest to find her place in the world will ultimately be what saves her.
A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found.
Persephone
May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged
through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong
somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is
lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around—changes in
weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her
into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets
attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates. Working
odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is
used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over
her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention.
After
an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it’s
time to move on once again. It’s lucky, then, when she receives an email
from the one friend she’s managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive
Wile Isle. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. However, upon arrival,
Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island. In fact,
it just might hold the very things she’s been searching for her entire
life.
Answers. Family. Home.
And some things she did not
want. Like 100-year-old curses and even older family feud. Love might be
the magic that saves them all.
Paige Crutcher's The Orphan Witch follows 32-year-old Persephone May on her journey from loneliness, to finding happiness. Persephone has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around—changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates.
Working odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention. After an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it’s time to move on once again. It’s lucky, then, when she receives an email from the one friend she’s managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive Wile Isle. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. However, upon arrival, Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island.
In fact, it just might hold the very things she’s been searching for her entire life. Answers. Family. Home. And some things she did not want. Like 100-year-old curses and an even older family feud between sisters Moira and Hyacinth Ever and sisters Ellison and Ariel. With the clock running out, love might be the magic that saves them all. The setting is largely contemporary, with one chapter set 100 years earlier and a few visits to other worlds, times, or dimensions.
With the clock ticking, Persephone must learn to control her magic while trying to find the answers about her family she's been searching her entire life for. She also encounters a ruggedly handsome, but infuriating caretaker for the Library of the Lost, Dorian Moskito who has been stuck in the Library for 200 years after making the wrong kind of enemy of a powerful witch. This is a story that includes multiple POVs, journal letters, and flashbacks.
Really cool place where lost things go to be collected. The Library is balanced out with bizarre places like Curse of Nightmares, the Menagerie of Magic, Sea of Shadow Monsters, and Arch to Anywhere. After about halfway thru the story, the action picks up and the suspense and danger builds to a creative ending. The story includes storylines of loneliness, family, family history, sisterhood, feuds, curses, power, greed, subterfuge, love, heartbreak, death, sacrifice, epic clashes, strength of character, and finding one’s place in the world.
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