To Drown a Witch

"You must run," Helen choked, blood dripping from her mouth and eyes. "The book has chosen you so you must keep it safe."

"I can't," Nomi cried, shoving the leather bound curse away from her. "Give it to Charity or Florence. They know how to defend it. They know what to do."

"Goddess help us all, I wish I could," she scowled. "But it chose you. It sees something in you nobody ever will, so take the damned thing and run. We'll give you cover."

Nomi grasped the book, her nails digging into it's frayed leather. "Where do I go?"

"Anywhere but here. You're the Keeper now. Do your job."

Nomi clenched her teeth, nodded at the doomed witch, and ran towards the docks.

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Nomi was never meant to be anyone, and she knew it. But, after disaster strikes her coven, Nomi Castellanos is forced to flee with the future of all witches in her hands.

Without any destination in mind, she stows away on an outgoing pirate ship where fate's wheels throw her to the mercy of the storm, once again.