Soul Bound: An Amulet University Series (Institute of Wizardry & Witchery)

"Start from the beginning. What were those things?" Drea asks as she squeezes excess warm water from a rag into a glass bowl. She gently wipes the damp cloth over Kennessie's forehead with her shaky hand.

"We call them Purgatories. They collect lost souls. What you had witnessed were souls of people that carried too much guilt and sorrow to cross to the other side. Purgatories consume these souls and live off their misery. They search for more souls to corrupt. The lost souls entered your friend's body looking for life. Your friend, Miss Smith, was the light they seek. They were crying within her and filling her with their pain. It's a good thing you called in time. That many souls could have consumed her and dragged her with them back into the dark shadows. Back into the Purgatories. She would have been lost."
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Kennessee Smith was five years old when her mother had dropped her off with family members she's never met. Each week Grandmamma would come and teach the powers of witchery. During those times the neighbor kids would hide, including her best friend Nara. Kennessee, her cousins, and the wizard boy her auntie babysat would always be stuck sitting through treacherous and sometimes awkward amounts of teachings. However, there were no amount of teachings that could have prepared her for sudden attacks of soul harboring creatures summoned by somebody that wants her dead. She will learn not to trust easily. Those she had trusted have been keeping secrets.