The Late-Night Witches
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"You'll fall deeply in love with this enchanting and cozy book, so much so that you’ll want to return to it every fall just to experience it again!"—New York Times bestselling author Breanne Randall
An enchantingly warm and funny novel about family, love lost and found, discovering who you are, and how difficult it is to slay a vampire from the beloved national bestselling author of the TikTok sensation In the Company of Witches.
Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical. With a wild younger sister, three unruly kids, and an absent husband, she’s really not looking forward to the witching month of October. At least the gorgeous, foggy Prince Edward Island is always quiet.
That is, until the vampires arrive.
As the creatures sink their teeth into Cassie’s tenuous grip on normalcy, she’s forced to come face-to-face with long–disregarded family secrets. The legacy gifts her with power, but also a lofty responsibility: rid the island of vampires, or let them win. (Both options suck, in more ways than one.)
Armed with her family, newfound friends, and a baby in a spectacularly garlicky onesie, Cassie must learn what it is to be a witch and how to fight for what she loves before time runs out. Because on Halloween night, the stakes will be higher than ever before...and it’s up to Cassie to finish what the witches that came generations before her started.
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Wallace (In the Company of Witches) infuses humor, magic, and surprise into this well-crafted suburban fantasy. Prince Edward Island native Cassie Beckett has her hands full with her 15-year-old daughter and eight year-old twins while her husband is away with Doctors Without Borders. And then there's her sister, Eliza, who's eight years her junior and whom she treats like her fourth child. When Eliza and Cassie witness their hair dresser, Joanne, biting Eliza's boyfriend's neck, it's a rude awakening that vampires are real. Confronted by the pair, Joanne gurgles a cryptic threat: "He's awake.... The Thirteenth witch will die." Cassie learns from her historian neighbor that centuries ago a powerful sea witch fought a vampire, known as the Deliverer, who was decimating the island. He was put into an enchanted sleep, but every 25 years he awakens to kill a descendant of the witch. If he kills 13 descendants, he'll be freed. Worse: Cassie herself may be number 13. Ever the über mom, with snacks and juice boxes at the ready, she gathers her family, her magical cat, and a town full of friends to help confront the Deliverer. Wallace's wonderfully realized characters overcome the exasperation of child-rearing, embrace the bonds of family and friendship, and chuckle through their madcap adventures. Readers are sure to be entertained.
