Familiar Shadows: A tale from the Federal Witch Universe (Familiar Magic Book 1)

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by Taki Drake


  “Stop! Stop! You must stop! Stupid girl!” Stupid him. I was committed and had to finish the spell, even he knew that.

  As I said the last word, a bright flash of light lit the field up and I heard a sound behind me that was a cross between a grunt and a screech. “Uh, oh.”

  I spun around just in time to see what looked like a large rabbit hop by. The animal was twice the size of a normal rabbit but now had antlers.

  “What did you do? That is not the spell I gave you!” The new Council teacher was beyond mad. His face was inflamed and fire was spitting from his eyes.

  “Sir, it is. See!” I held out the spell to him. He grabbed it from my hands and began checking it line by line.

  “What is this notation right here?”

  I peered at the line halfway through. “It looks like the word verða.”

  “It’s not. It’s the wrong tense. It needs to be umskipti. I didn’t write it that way. Why is it on here?” He thrust the paperwork back at me.

  “Sir, I copied it exactly from your notes.”

  “I do not make mistakes! You are trying to blame this disaster on me and I won’t have it!” He stormed away, ranting to the heavens. I stared at the paper in my hands. We used old Norse as a modern magical language for all our spells. The word ‘change’ actually has five different spellings in old Norse. I guess now I know what happens when I use the wrong one.

  “You just broke another one, Agatha!”

  “How? I don’t see what it is I did wrong! He just walked off.”

  “Uh, did you see the creature a minute ago?”

  “Yeah it looked like a rabbit or something.”

  “You made another one, Agatha. That used to be a rabbit and a deer.”

  That horrified me. Those poor creatures. Somehow my use of the wrong word for ‘change’ made my magic modify those beautiful creatures. “I guess he is going to report me...”

  Read the first book in the Federal Witch series Here!

  The Federal Witch

  Born a Witch Drafted by the FBI! Now Available in Audio!

  Conjuring Quantico Now Available in Audio!

  Magical Probi Now Available in Audio!

  Special Agent in Charge Now Available in Audio!

  Witness Enchantment

  Night of the Unicorn

  Invisible Elder - TBD

  Blood on the Moon - TBD

  Child of Darkness -TBD

  A Draft of Dragons -TBD

  Cat’s Night Out, Tails from the Federal Witch Audio Coming Soon

  The Standard of Honor

  Shade of Honor

  Coven Codex -TBD

  A Confluence of Covens -TBD

  Conflict of Commitments -TBD

  Standard of Honor -TBD

  The Mongo Files

  The Case of the Jamaican Karma -TBD

  The Case of the Lazy Magnolia - TBD

  The Case of the Rugrat Exorcist -TBD

  Cookbooks From the Federal Witch Universe

  Marcella’s Garden Cookbook

  Fergus Favorites Cookbook

  Marcella’s Summer Bounty -Coming Soon

  Marcella’s Autumn Harvest -Coming Soon

  Read and Eat Cookbooks

  Badger Hole Bar Food Cookbook

  Athena Lee Chronicles

  The Forgotten Engineer

  Engineering Murder

  Ghost ships of Terra

  Revolutionary

  Insurrection

  Imperial Subversion

  The Martian Inheritance - Audio Now Available

  Infiltration

  Prelude to War

  War to the Knife

  Ghosts of Noodlemass Past

  Athena Lee Universe

  Shades of Learning

  Space Cadets - Coming Soon Early 2017

  Short Story Collections

  Wilson’s War

  A Colony of CATTs

  Box Sets

  Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 1-3

  Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 4-6

  Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 7-9 plus the prequel

  The Federal Witch Book 1

  Standalone or tie-ins

  The Tide: The Multiverse Wave

  The Lost Pilot

  Uncommon Life

  Kutherian Gambit

  Alpha Class. The Etheric Academy book 1

  Alpha Class. The Etheric Academy Book 2

  Alpha Class The Etheric Academy Book 3 - Coming soon

  Anthologies

  Phoenix Galactic

  The Expanding Universe Book 2

  Cupid’s Bow

  Mysterious Hearts

  Journal With a View

  Non-Fiction

  Get that Sh@t off your Cover!

  Don’t forget to check the Blog every week for a New Wilson or Fergus story.

  Copyrights

  This book is a work of fiction, All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Sometimes both.

  No actual Unicorns, Demons, Fae, Dragons, Cats, Hawks, Witches, or Gods were harmed in the making of this book. Promise.

  Copyright © 2017 T S Paul

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

  The phrases ©Badger Hole Bar and Badger Hole Bar Universe are creations and property of Author Taki Drake and are used here with her permission.

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  Great Big Thanks to :

  Developmental Editing by Diane Velasquez and Dorene Johnson AKA the (real) D’s.

  Final Editing by Kat Lind, The Dragon Lady

  All writing was done on Scrivener and Google Docs

  Special thanks to my wife Heather who keeps me grounded and to Merlin the Cat, we are his minions and to all the members of Phoenix prime.

 

 

 


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