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Now that you know a little bit about the story, we’re going to give you a taste of the first part of\u00a0Destiny’s Dark Light<\/em> by Sara Dobie Bauer from our\u00a0Enchanted<\/em> trilogy.<\/p>\n

In modern day Charlleston, lonely white witch Cyan Burroughs has waited her whole life to lead the battle against dark witches and eventually meet the man she is fated to love. A tragic trolley accident brings Liam Cody into her life. He is her destiny, but he’s also in love with someone else. Now, Cyan and her magic family must find the dark witch who caused the accident while Cyan fights her feelings for Liam–a charming Irishman with secrets of his own.<\/p>\n

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DESTINY\u2019S DARK LIGHT: PART ONE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Sara Dobie Bauer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Time will come for Loach and Dorcha to meet, but divining when is no easy feat. Born enemies, the Loach shall harness magic light, while Dorcha brings about eternal night. The Dorcha will have eyes of green and blue, while Loach will shine bright of hue. When they finally meet and their powers awaken, the magic world will be mightily shaken. Our people hope for light magic to triumph, But wishing against fate is an act of defiance. – The Book of Shadows<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cyan Burroughs reclined in the rickety leather chair that smelled of sage with her big, black boots propped on the desk edge. The dim morning light of her aunt Sybil\u2019s secret office was more than enough to read by as she flipped through another dusty tome about spell casting until the pungent odor of painting oils crept up behind her. She turned to find Sybil\u2014red hair in a halo of frizz and a smudge of black on her nose.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing here already?\u201d Sybil asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never went home last night.\u201d Cyan closed the book and tossed it on the desk. They both coughed on a cloud of spilled incense ash.<\/p>\n

From behind her back, Aunt Sybil pulled a small canvas and handed it to her niece. \u201cI\u2019m quite proud of this one. Finished it after breakfast this morning.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

Cyan sighed and looked down at the black and white painting\u2014one of dozens her aunt had crafted over the years, never in color, because Sybil\u2019s visions were never in color, as if the fates wanted her aunt\u2019s psychic ability relegated to the silent film era.<\/p>\n

The painting was of him again. Cyan had known his face since infancy, the man her aunt said she would one day love. This particular painting was of him in profile, sun shining across his dark hair and casting shadows down his handsome face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like every other one you\u2019ve done.\u201d Cyan handed the painting back. She grew tired of his image sometimes, tired of waiting for him to show, tired\u2026 just tired.<\/p>\n

Cyan jokingly called him \u201cDofheicthe,\u201d Gaelic for \u201cinvisible\u201d\u2014\u201cDof\u201d for short.<\/p>\n

She laughed off all the paintings and Sybil\u2019s promises of true love but secretly kept a folded piece of paper in her wallet\u2014a tiny drawing of his face penned when Cyan was only thirteen, back when she believed fleetingly in princesses finding Prince Charming.<\/p>\n

Sybil sighed through her nose and studied the small canvas. She sang, \u201cSomeday, my prince will come\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyan yawned and stood. She used the rubber band on her wrist to pull her nappy blonde braids into a huge ponytail on the back of her head and walked to the bookshelf behind the midnight blue curtain, where Sybil kept the real treasures. Most people didn\u2019t know about the secret books behind the blue curtain\u2014books about curses, spells, and the Craft. They may have suspected, but they didn\u2019t know, excepting a choice, old money few. Just as most people didn\u2019t know members of the Plainacher-Burroughs clan were actually witches, Cyan\u2019s father included.<\/p>\n

Sybil owned a popular bookstore on Broad Street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, known simply as Sea Books\u2014an oceanside play on her abilities as a seer\u2014and lived in the small apartment upstairs. People often came for Sybil\u2019s books on natural remedies and self-help, while Cyan\u2019s mother, Rue, taught classes about tinctures and anti-aging creams.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you sleep at all, sweetheart?\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

Cyan dismissed her aunt with a hand wave and fingered through spell books until she found one about potions.<\/p>\n

Sybil muttered to herself and disappeared back to the front of the bookstore, leaving behind the smell of honeysuckle, a scent that heightened psychic awareness. Cyan resumed her position at the desk and kept reading; she couldn\u2019t do anything else.<\/p>\n

Cyan\u2019s destiny had been determined while she was still in her mother\u2019s womb\u2014her powerful Grandmother Plainacher sensed that she would grow to be the Loach, the witch prophesized in her people\u2019s Book of Shadows to take down the dark Dorcha, and Sybil backed her mother\u2019s bid. So Cyan was born to fight, it seemed, but in the long history of her family\u2019s magic, she was the only one who had not manifested during puberty.<\/p>\n

The prophecy stated her powers would lie dormant until the appearance of the Dorcha. No matter how many potions her mother mixed, how many blood-bound spells her father cast, Cyan was defenseless in a world that expected her to one day be its protector. She toyed mindlessly with the black agate pendant at her throat.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo get me some hot chocolate, dear,\u201d Sybil\u2019s voice said from the front room. \u201cYou know how I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDark with heavy cream and two sugars,\u201d Cyan grumbled, although maybe it was indeed time she saw the sun.<\/p>\n

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