The Coven: Prequel to The Witches of Wells - Paperback

by Cheryl Kennedy (Author)

The Power of the Witches against the Determination of a Young GirlPrequel to Kennedy's best-selling "The Witches of Wells"

While a storm rages outside, six-year-old Eliza Lewis trembles in fear, locked alone inside her family's dark attic. Down below, her mother's coven initiates her ten-year-old sister into their fold. Despite the horrors that paralyze her, she risks her mother's wrath to come to her sister's aid, only to witness the slaughter of her beloved pet at the hands of her mother.

Secrets of a family's past, dating back to the Salem Witch Trials, will be revealed as Eliza vows to make her mother pay for the cruelty she has inflicted on those closest to her. Not even her own coven is protected from her mercilessness as she proves she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Author Biography

Born and raised in St. Albans, Vermont, Cheryl Kennedy graduated from Castleton State College where she received her degree in Communications with a concentration in Journalism. Cheryl wrote for both her high school as well as her college newspapers. While attending college, she published several poems in various anthologies. In 1983 she married her college sweetheart and moved to Rhode Island. Today Cheryl and her husband of 28 years reside in Bristol, RI. After a lengthy absence from writing while she worked and raised her two daughters, Cheryl returned to writing with the publication of a short autobiographical story The Year Off that was published earlier this year