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S H E P R O M I S E D
"She is at a crossroads: a child's violent will to survive lodged in her chest where her heart should be, but an utter indifference along with it." Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children
—In her dreams, she hears her mother's voice whispering to her. Sad, soft, desperately begging for forgiveness all while she wishes she could answer back. But when young Elle wakes up in that hospital, no memory of her past and family, the memory of her mother's voice fades away into existence. Despite the odds, family love means more to her than anything she'll ever understand. She wants the love, she wants the comfort, she wants the home.
And she gets it, if only for a moment. The Mitchells seem like the picture perfect family: neighboorhood sweetheart and working father Joseph, small business owner/supportive mother Stephanie, and older sister Cordelia should have more than enough for her. The perfect witch family in magical New Orleans for a young witch. But there's always a catch, isn't there? And Elle should have known better. It begins with Stephanie, her dark thoughts becoming darker before succumbing to them, and ending with Joseph, whose wicked touch haunts her nightmares and terrorizes her days. Never mind the magic too strong for her body to contain. It's too much, too much! She wants to scream and fight, it's not fair! Why can't she be happy, why can't she find her happy ending?
Enter the Mikaelsons. Old and ancient, Elle's heard a million and one stories about their bloodlust and rage but the one thing she likes most about them? Family — above all, it is what they honor and protect and love most. Sometimes she'd found herself jealous of their vow, wanting to find her own always and forever. With their arrival comes upheavals Elle had never comprehended, including (but not limited to) the impossible birth of a tribrid baby, the werewolves and witches rising up against the vampires, and memories long thought gone now to return.
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S O U N D T R A C K
"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I can only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones." Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena
BROTHER, kodaline WAY DOWN WE GO, kaleo YOUTH, daughter FEMALE ROBBERY, the neighbourhood WALLS COULD TALK, halsey BORN TO DIE, lana del rey GENERATION WHY, conan gray MOUNTAIN TO MOVE, nick mulvey
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C A S T
"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be absolutely certain in the depths of her soul that the most terrifying in the forest was her." Unknown
ELLE MITCHELL...willa holland
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CORDELIA MITCHELL...katie mcgrath
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D I S C L A I M E R i do not own the originals, and all rights go to julie plec & the cw. i only own my characters and their plots.
W A R N I N G this book will contain triggering topics (physical/sexual abuse, anxiety, etc.), violence, mature language, et cetera. read at your own risk.
