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Written by B. Austin
Narrated by Rachel Leblang
Duration 17 hours and 10 minutes
*Multiple Audiobooks* Books 1 to 3 (17+ hours)
*Award-winning author* (Best Historical Fiction, New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards, 2013)
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Book 1: Undying Witch – 1918 to 1933
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“I will live forever. If I could make you, my daughter, live longer than a human, I would. I do not want to be alone again.”
A 97-year-old fortune-teller discovers the magic to be young and live forever. DIMA, the illegitimate granddaughter of Catherine the Great, is doomed to live in poverty until she steals the four Starostavne books of magical spells, potions, and enchantments. Years later in Los Angeles, Dima’s wild teenage daughter resents a 112-year-old mother who can shape-shift into the same age as she. MEDEA loathes Dima, who loves her 17 cats more than she does her rebellious daughter. Medea despises a mother who claims all witchcraft as her magic and treats her daughter like a slave. In secret, Medea develops her own sorcery.
Book 2: The Witch with Nine Lives – 1934 to 1952
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Dark Secrets and an Unexpected Magical Gift Pits Two Powerful Sisters Against Each Other!
Due to her mother’s curse, Medea turns into a cat at night. Her sister, NIKKI works as a maid, rather than in the family witchcraft business of fortune-telling, seances, and other witchery-for-hire. She was born a Marilyn-Monroe lookalike. Despite her beauty, jealousy eats away at Nikki because her mother and sister have magic. Nor is Nikki allowed near the books of spells, enchantments, and potions Dima stole from Russian monks. Medea spends her days reading fortunes and conducting seances. Medea gets to keep half of the money she earns, while Nikki is treated like a slave by their mother. Medea helps Nikki out of one self-induced crisis after another out of both love and guilt. She is tortured by a secret that can destroy the sisterly bond between Nikki and her. Nikki has her own secret, and is confused, and frightened by the magical gift she is developing, a sorcery she cannot control, a magic that will threaten Medea.
Book 3: Witch Daughter – 1952 to 2001
LILIYA, Dima’s third daughter, may be a hippy and a Natural Witch who dabbles in plants, but Liliya is trouble. She has an unhealthy obsession with the weather, forcing the Romanov witches to flee once again. After Liliya gives birth to ASTRA, the family moves into a home that reflects their royal Russian blood, a rundown mansion in Santa Fe at the bottom of Witch Hill.
There is a portrait hanging in the house at Witch Hill. Thirteen-year-old ASTRA Romanov looks out of the picture with haunted eyes, but her grandmother dominates the picture. Dima is 180 years old but appears to be a teenager, proudly holding out in her hand an ordinary-looking volcanic rock, a rare shape-shifting stone, allowing her to bathe like in the fountain of youth, to be immortal while others around her age, including her three daughters.
Astra is half-Native American. Her aunts, Medea and Nikki, tutor her as a third-generation witch. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but humanity will never break me,” so claims the young witch, Astra, but she was born with a soft, human heart that even being an outcast won’t harden. Astra has wolves as her only friends, until her family makes her befriend Amelia, a Catholic girl they have their eye on.
In New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, the Romanovs will discover that they are not the only magical beings. And then there is the danger of a fanatical branch of the Catholic Church.
WARNING: Includes horror elements which some listeners may find disturbing.
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