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    A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep
    A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep
    A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep
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    A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep

    By Thea Hutcheson

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    Misha Millik is a hearth witch, brought by Headmaster Winterton to Chisolm Keep, a school for magic. She's a misfit, surrounded by wealthy children, her only friend a stray cat. She is desperately unhappy and completely inept at any kind of magic the school teaches. But Winterton insists she is where he wants her. How can she succeed and find her purpose?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLilac Moon Books
    Release dateApr 7, 2012
    ISBN9781476103884
    A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep
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    Thea Hutcheson

    Thea Hutcheson lives and writes in a large house full of an understanding partner, four semi-feral cats, and about a thousand books in an economically depressed, unscenic, nearly historic small city in Colorado. When she's not working diligently as a planning commissioner to change that situation or writing, she's a factotum.

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      A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep - Thea Hutcheson

      A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep

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      Thea Hutcheson

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      A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep

      The egg materialized three feet above the table, hovered for a moment and then dropped, landing hard, the yolk spreading across the velvet cover. Misha shot a hand out to stop it from falling over the edge and spattering on the floor, but realized just as the goopy mess hit her hand that wasn't the brightest maneuver. She grabbed the wand from her other hand, deploying it in a desperate attempt to work some kind of spell -- any kind of spell -- to salvage the moment.

      The wand got tangled in the velvet and, as she scrambled to free it, the egg, obeying her command to move, flipped off the table and moved toward the watching instructors in first row of the amphitheater. Worse, it was headed right toward Salome.

      Misha flung herself ahead of the floating egg, turned, and raised her cloaked arms in an effort to capture the mess before it could sully the Dame's silk and satin robe.

      She was lucky there. The egg spattered dead center in her face to drip down upon her roommate's second best dress.

      She turned, pleased that she'd been able to

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