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    Jaclyn of the Lantern
    Jaclyn of the Lantern
    Jaclyn of the Lantern
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    Jaclyn of the Lantern

    By Amy Stilgenbauer

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    Jaclyn has always known her family was unusual. Her mother is a witch and her father, well, he's been dead for almost 600 years. On her 23rd Halloween, family secrets will be revealed that change everything.

    (1st in the Season of the Witch series)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmy Stilgenbauer
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301260768
    Jaclyn of the Lantern
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    Amy Stilgenbauer

    Amy Stilgenbauer is an information scientist, freelance writer, and baseball aficionado, who spends her life split between Ohio and Michigan. She received her degree in writing from Mount Union College in 2007.

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      Jaclyn of the Lantern - Amy Stilgenbauer

      Jaclyn of the Lantern

      Amy Stilgenbauer

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      Cover Image: Snap-Apple Night, painted by Irish artist Daniel Maclise in 1862. This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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      My mother taught me not to make deals with death. My father was the best example of why.

      Where my father came from, if you were a sensible man, you carried cold iron in your pockets. Back then, no one disputed this. They just did it. They knew it could make the difference between life and death.

      Especially during summer's end.

      During summer's end, things were wrong. Whole cities appeared and disappeared without warning. Long deceased friends and relatives showed up demanding dinner. It was a mess of a time.

      Nowadays, no one remembers to carry cold iron.

      More's the pity.

      Summer's end and harvest time used to be different. People were actually worried about getting to the plants before the faeries did. Not anymore.

      The other night, after a long day at the tea shop, I walked into a bar on a whim and they put a pineapple in my drink. Back where my father came from, they wouldn't even know what to do with a pineapple. They definitely wouldn't have them around for garnish in October. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I have a job to do.

      You see, Autumn gets a bad reputation. I've never quite understood why. It's nothing like that unbearable spring when food stores are terribly low and all you have is the vain hope that what you've planted will grow. Autumn should be beloved. It is a season of harvest, of abundance.

      And then there's those leaves...

      I wonder if it's something more insidious. Perhaps people balk at autumn's splendor because you start seeing the skeleton of the world. Coldness is coming. The bones of the earth are starting to show just like a person's might if they don't put enough food away. It's best to retreat to where there might still be a little warmth: at the hearth fire.

      That's how it used to

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