Speculos
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"She's a witch, I'm a mirror child. We're one Cullen short of a Saturday Night Live sketch."
Dead people are popping up in Emerson Quinn's mirrors, and when that isn't the strangest part of a girl's day something has to be done.
Her mother's in jail, her godmother's a witch; and she learns of a twin brother she never knew she had.
Oh, and Emerson herself is a newly-fledged member of the Speculos - a secret society that keeps balance between the human and the unnaturals. Something is definitely a secret when even a girl's know-it-all witch of a
godmother --literally, not figuratively-- doesn't know much of anything.
Now Emerson must save her brother. It will be the race of her life - but she's only just realized there's no track.
*Many kudos to @DrBoots for the lovely cover. She's wonderful!*
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