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    The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born
    The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born
    The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born
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    The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born

    By Louise Bohmer

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    This is a serial fantasy novel that will be released in regular installments. Watch for Book 2: Witch Twins Secrets coming soon.

    The history of a curse is filled with bloody battles, bitter hatred, and dark secrets.
    Through five generations, ghosts of war haunt the wise women. When the rebellion of Glenna ends, their curse sleeps bound in the Tunnels of the Dead, waiting for its chance to re-awaken the war between the wood people and Dalthwein clans. Claire, a wise woman born in the valley of the fae, unwittingly helps it escape imprisonment, while her twin sister Anna receives psychic glimpses of ancient secrets she must unravel. With her scribe teacher Rosalind, she also struggles to uncover the reasons behind Claire’s strange behavior, ever escalating since the death of their guild mother, Grianne.
    The Age of the Wise Women will cease if the curse does not end with Anna and Claire. Perhaps inheriting the mistakes of their ancestors and learning the truths of their identities will bring great suffering for these witch twins.

    In Book 1: Witch Twins Born Claire begins to confess the truth to Anna, and Anna discovers her twin is having an affair with a woodman named Luthien.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouise Bohmer
    Release dateJun 3, 2013
    The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born
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    Louise Bohmer

    Louise Bohmer has over eight years experience in editing and publishing. She edits for Permuted Press, and has edited for many publishers and authors in a variety of genres including general interest, romance, erotica, mystery, horror, and speculative. Her writing experience extends across fiction, ghost writing, ad copy, web content, SEO copy, and press releases. Her latest release is the Anti-Heroes serial written with K.H. Koehler (Anti-Heroes Press) and you can read her short fiction in Detritus (Omnium Gatherum), The Red Penny Papers, and Old School. Plus her debut novel, The Black Act, is now available once again in serial form. She offers freelance services in editing, book cover design, ghost writing, and ebook as well as print formatting. She loves to hear from her readers via email and reviews. Her home base is New Brunswick, Canada, where she lives with a tattooed giant. You can pay her a visit at http://www.louisebohmer.com or email her at blackfaery76@yahoo.ca

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      The Black Act Book 1 - Louise Bohmer

      THE BLACK ACT

      Book 1

      WITCH TWINS BORN

      By

      Louise Bohmer

      This is a serial fantasy novel that will be released in regular installments. Watch for Book 2: Witch Twins Secrets coming soon.

      Copyright © 2009 - 2013 Louise Bohmer

      Smashwords Edition

      Third Edition

      Published by Bohmer Books

      http://www.louisebohmer.com/

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be distributed, shared, resold, posted online, or reproduced in any electronic or hard copy form.

      This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities between actual persons or events is entirely coincidental.

      Cover art design by Louise Bohmer

      Font design by K.H. Koehler

      http://www.thejoboctopus.com/

      ***

      Special thanks to everyone who encouraged me to give this story another chance.

      And to Steven--forever and a day.

      ***

      THE BLACK ACT

      Book 1

      WITCH TWINS BORN

      Ella’s final journal entry

      A fae never dies nor is one truly born. Each is a seed of Dala. Our planet is alive and its sentience rests in its core.

      Our histories tell us the wood people were the first beings to inhabit these lands in the Dalthwein region, near the entrance to Dala’s heart core. This world’s spirit threaded up through the ground, like the roots of our trees, creating Dala’s guardians. The planet manifested slivers of itself into physicality. Bits of root and bark blended with furry pelts, bones, eyes, and teeth. Dala molded legs from mud and moss, skulls from mushrooms, and fingers from the strongest twigs.

      Some say the planet was lonely, others believe it wanted to experience itself, existence, from a new perspective. The truth goes back so many millennia, none of us know for certain anymore. If the fae remember these ancient secrets, they aren’t telling, and I don’t blame them.

      Others came from the dirt. It is said we all come from the dirt—wolf, human, crow—and back to the dirt our bodies will go. Dala recycles the spirit as she sees fit. Summerland is a way station for the souls. This is what our people are told.

      Fae are sacred, elusive creatures. Most Dalthwein pay great respect to the wood people for their benevolent guidance, the teachings, gifts, and knowledge they’ve bestowed on us since we came to the Dalthwein region. But my ancestors have spat on their kindness since Corrigan McCleod first led them here.

      He took their tribal names away from them, and he led my people far from their coastal homes after King Collidor perished in the great floods. Where Collidor was a loyal and just leader, Corrigan was an oppressive tyrant. He infected my ancestors, my family, with a curse that refused to die. But with me it ends.

      Ella McCleod

      Day 96 of the Autumn Quarter

      ***

      Anna concentrated on her scrying bowl and frowned. She reached beside her to find three dried sage leaves that she added to the stubborn, silent mixture. They bobbed across the dark green surface like tiny boats, but still no clear or distinct visions came to her. This troubled her greatly. Claire was guarding her mind from entrance. Neither sister had ever kept secrets from one another until recently.

      Since the death of their guild mother, Grainne, early in the last Winter Quarter, Claire had changed. Now deep into the Spring Quarter with no signs of her sister’s grief or her odd behavior, including frequent disappearances from guild classes,

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