BEWITCHED
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LAURA THALASSA
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LAVABROOK PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC
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Copyright © 2023 by Laura Thalassa
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CONTENTS
The Law of Three
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Coming Soon
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Books by Laura Thalassa
About the Author
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For Astrid, who brews potions, dances with skeletons, and howls at the moon. You have magic in your blood, love.
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THE LAW OF THREE
The magic you cast,
In use be wise and true.
Do good unto others,
For threefold it shall return to you,
If ill will moves your hand,
And woe strikes in your wake,
Threefold it shall return its might.
Threefold the curse will take.
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PROLOGUE
Memnon
I am trapped.
I have been for a very, very long time. My body and mind are bound by spells both suffocating and comforting. I cannot escape them, no matter how hard I try.
And how I have tried.
This is not as it should be. I know that. I remember that.
Someone did this to me.
Someone…but who?
The answer evades me.
My thoughts are…fragmented. Broken apart and scattered by the very wards that shroud me.
There was a life before this shadow of an existence. Sometimes I catch glimpses of it. The memory of the sun, the heavy weight of a sword in my hand, the feel of a woman—my woman—beneath me.
Even when I cannot recall much of what I look like, I can see the slope of her shoulder and the curve of her smile and the mischief shining in her sharp blue eyes.
Her image…it cuts deeper than a wound.
Need her.
My queen. My wife.
Roxilana.
Need to leave this place. Need to find her.
Unless…
What if…what if she is truly gone?
Lost to me forever?
Terror eclipses my longing and clears some of the haze from my mind. I release what magic I can, funneling it through the few holes I’ve found in these spells.
Roxilana cannot be dead. So long as I exist, she must too. I have…taken pains to make this so.
I relax.
She will find me.
One day.
One day.
So I call to her, as I always have.
And I wait.
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CHAPTER 1
Selene
Today will be the day Henbane Coven accepts me.
I exhale as I stare up at the sprawling Gothic buildings that make up the coven’s campus. The property sits on the coastal hills north of San Francisco, bordered on all sides by the Everwoods, a thick coastal forest composed of evergreen trees.
There’s no placard that announces I’m now standing on witch-owned land, but this place doesn’t really need one. If a person lingers for long enough, they’ll see something out of the ordinary—like, for instance, the circle of witches sitting on the lawn ahead of me.
Their hair and clothes float every which way, as though no longer bound by gravity, and plumes of their magic thicken the air around them. The color of their individual magic varies—from bright green, to bubblegum pink, to turquoise, and more—but as I watch, it all blends, creating an odd sort of rainbow in the air around them.
