Sierra Manchester is a young and fierce member of the most highly esteemed family in the town of Hickory Plains, but both the town and her family bear fantastic secrets that are destined to change Hickory Plains and the Manchesters forever. Sierra is a nineteen-year-old witch in a family of powerful wielders of witchcraft, and though many of her siblings and cousins are in control of similar powers, one particular member of her family, her nineteen-year-old cousin named Kaitlyn, was not born with the special gift of witchcraft. As the years have gone by, she has been forced to see Sierra's...

1893 Vermont, Peter Merlin is a young carpenter who has used his witchcraft to his advantage in his woodwork. For as long as he can remember, he has loved his childhood friend, Emily Tressel. However, he has become nearly entirely reclusive whenever she comes around, fearing persecution and death at the hands of the superstitious townsfolk should his family's secret ever be revealed. When Emily is sent to live in a city, he follows her and must decide what's worth risking everything for.

1893 Vermont, Amy Merlin watches Peter (her brother) and Emily enjoying themselves at their wedding party in Amy's house. At twenty-two years of age, she hopes for a caring and compassionate man of her own. Nick Hawthorne, a man she had just met, tries to woo her to no immediate avail because she witnessed him eavesdropping on a private conversation between the Merlins earlier. He says that he was interested in Peter and Emily's love story, but she can tell that he is lying. Amy believes Nick Hawthorne's ulterior motives for getting close to her and her family are sure to change the family's...

Vermont 1893, Beth Merlin's own loneliness is plaguing her now that both her grown-up children are married, and Sir Edward Chanel's spying on her could mean an end to that loneliness in either the form of her death or a steamy romance between the two. But Edward has secrets of his own that even a powerful witch like Beth would never expect. His mysteries are the stuff of legend, and the danger that Beth is entering into will be nothing less than her ultimate challenge.

In 1893 Vermont, the Merlins, a family of secret witches, are about to face the most turbulent time of their lives. From a lifelong love story to sanctioned conflicts in the name of the Witches Alliance, follow the Merlins in their dark and often passionate trials. Peter Merlin is a young carpenter who has used his witchcraft to his advantage in his woodwork. For as long as he can remember, he has loved his childhood friend, Emily Tressel. However, he has become nearly entirely reclusive whenever she comes around, fearing persecution and death at the hands of the superstitious townsfolk...

Karen Carver is a doctor who volunteers at a free clinic two days a week. The clinic is run by a local corporation, Gregory Industries. Its founder, Benton Gregory, was raised in the same neighborhood where the clinic is located. Karen, often frustrated by the lack of available budget at the clinic, agrees to help investigate missing medications when a man she believes to be Gregory Industries' accountant asks for her assistance. Karen, single for far too long, finds the accountant overwhelmingly attractive. When they meet again so she can report what she has discovered, she finds it...

Dr. Karen Carver has spent five years trying to put her past behind her and move on. She rarely trusts easily. This is the case with Benton Gregory, the billionaire business man whose corporation runs the free clinic where Karen volunteers her afternoons two days a week. But when he pushed his way into her life, she gave an inch and watched him walk away as though her offer had no meaning to him. Karen runs into Benton at the free clinic, only to have him look through her as though she is not even there. Then she discovers that her father, the one man who has destroyed her ability to trust,...

Dr. Karen Carver is the daughter of a controlling man who is unhappy with her professional choices. In an attempt to force her back into his clutches, he offers her an ultimatum: come home or she will not have the assets her mother intended for her to have. At the same time, Karen finds herself caught between the man she thought was interested in her and an investigation into wrong doings at the free clinic where she volunteers her time. Karen engages a lawyer to handle her father, but steps away from the free clinic in an attempt to protect her heart from the lies and deception of its...

Book One: Misled Karen Carver is a doctor who volunteers at a free clinic two days a week. The clinic is run by a local corporation, Gregory Industries. Its founder, Benton Gregory, was raised in the same neighborhood where the clinic is located. Karen, often frustrated by the lack of available budget at the clinic, agrees to help investigate missing medications when a man she believes to be Gregory Industries' accountant asks for her assistance. Karen, single for far too long, finds the accountant overwhelmingly attractive. When they meet again so she can report what she has discovered, she...

Elle Cinder's world was turned upside down a year ago with her father's death and the loss of her inheritance, and now she works as a cleaning woman, hoping that one day she can return to school. She has found that her heart is too broken by her father's betrayal to believe in love or that she will ever find it. That is until her friend Claire forces her to come to an exclusive party as support. But little does Elle know that she will meet one of the three Charmant brothers. The brothers who run their family's diverse empire. In the youngest brother Luke, Elle finds a man who is her...