The Witchling: Valley of Ashes

Tara Cormac is a nineteen year old with an astounding secret: she can read minds and see into the future. But this gift doesn't come without strings.

Fresh from her foster home, she helps run a small mystic store where she sells out her gifts to make a living. Rumors around town speculate she's the real thing, but Tara knows it's just gossip. No one could possibly believe she can actually see the future, can they?

This is what she believed until one day a strange man enters the store and bursts in on one of her readings, claiming he is a warlock and that she is actually a witch. He begs her to come with him to the land of Shadowmarsh, a realm far detached from what she's always known, to face her fate in the Valley of Ashes. What is her fate exactly? Read on to find out.

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