Book guide
The Once and Future Witches
In an alternate 1893, three sisters join the suffrage movement and reclaim forbidden witchcraft to fight for women's power and survival.
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About The Once and Future Witches
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.
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- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- Misogyny
- Racism
- Homophobia
- Transphobia
- Child abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Animal abuse
- Animal death
- Pregnancy
- Abortion
- Self-harm
- Torture
- Violence
- Fire
- Kidnapping
- parental death
- major character death
- arrest and imprisonment
- mind control
- forced hospitalization
- childbirth
- threat of sexual assault (averted)
- child abandonment
- sexual content (vaguely described)
