The Windhaven WitchesBooks 1-4
Carissa Andrews
Contents
Secret Legacy
1. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
2. And Then There Was an Angel
3. The Winds of Change Are Coming
4. Barely Existedness
5. Going Back in Time
6. I Don't Wanna Go...
7. Welcome Home, Autumn
8. Do You Think I'm Nuts?
9. The Witching Stick
10. Veritas vos Liberabit
11. First Day of School & Other Strange Things
12. Okay, That Was Unusual
13. Holy Hell—It Was You!
14. I Just Hope You're Ready
15. Library & Dead Ancestors
16. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
17. A Trail To Follow
18. Shadows & Tattered Wallpaper
19. Legacies and Curses
20. Broken Loyalties
21. Remnants
22. Careful What You Wish For
23. Surprise
24. Forbidden
25. When the Dead Rise
26. Showtime
27. I Can't Do This Alone
28. Gemini Blood
29. Circle Back Around
30. Sinner
Soul Legacy
1. Loose Ends
2. Witching Stick, Take 2
3. Where Do I Sign?
4. Desecrated
5. Rumors On The First Day
6. All That Follows
7. New Doors Best Left Closed
8. Undead Things
9. A Home For The Dead
10. Who's Out There?
11. Maybe It Was Fate
12. Buzzkill
13. Prove It
14. Confessions
15. All Eyes Are On
16. The Jig Is Up
17. Speak Your Truths
18. A Wellspring Of Veneration
19. Gather Your Alliances
20. Convergence
21. Sworn To Secrecy
22. Unleashing Pandora
23. A Death Wish
24. A Guarantee
25. Fetch
26. All Things Displaced
27. Sudden Death
28. Where Do We Go From Here?
Haunted Legacy
1. Death is my curse
2. What’s Fate Got to Do With It?
3. Open Wounds
4. Haunting
5. Messed Up
6. One Reason
7. The Thread of Life
8. Lucky to Have Found You
9. Seeking Answers
10. Sacred Spaces
11. Panic Room
12. The Space Between Us
13. Paranormal Activity
14. Banishment & Protection
15. Against the Clock
16. His Time Has Come
17. To Whom This House Belongs
18. Stages of Grief
19. Answers Within
20. A Cursed Legacy
21. What Kind of Choices Are These?
22. Summoning the Forgotten
23. Into the Vortex
24. Tick Tock
25. What Is It Good For?
26. In His Likeness
27. Puppet Master
28. Death Wish
29. Splintering
30. Always Be With You
31. Chin Up
Cursed Legacy
1. A Lot Like Christmas
2. The Roller Coaster of a Cursed Life
3. Phone Calls & Exploration
4. Pomp and Circumstance
5. Puzzling
6. For Your Sins
7. Lies
8. Family Matters
9. Out in the Open
10. Put to the Test
11. Breathe
12. Life, Death, & Metamorphosis
13. Pity Party & Negotiations
14. An Insane Gamble
15. The Other Side
16. Them’s the Rules
17. Clear the Sins Away
18. Ripples
19. Merry Christmas
20. Lachesis
21. Pulling the Strings
22. The Only Way Forward
23. Fail-safe
24. The Box
25. Sin-Eater
26. Memories
27. Done with Fate
28. Second Chances
Also by Carissa Andrews
About the Author
Secret Legacy
Chapter 1
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
By the absurd color of my mother’s face, it’s safe to say I’m royally screwed.
“I asked you a question,” Mom says, her hazel eyes trained expectantly on me.
My mouth drops open, and I shake my head. “I don’t even know what that is.”
“Don’t play coy with me, Autumn. This is a big deal—a behemoth deal. You don’t get a packet like this to the Windhaven Academy unless they’ve accepted your enrollment,” she says, placing a protective hand across the large purple packet with sparkly stars across it.
Instinctively, I grab for the envelope, tugging it from under her palm. I pull it to my chest without even looking closer at it. It’s got some heft to it, and I float through the decisions of whether to toss it in the trash or walk off with it.
“Look, Mom, there’s gotta be a mistake here. Or maybe someone is playing a practical joke on me. The Windhaven Academy…that’s a school for kids with unique abilities—the supernatural kids. Why would I apply there, let alone get accepted? It’s ludicrous.”
“That’s what I would like to know. Imagine my shock when the mailman passed it over,” she says. “The last I heard you were planning on going to the U next year. I know it’s not as early as you would have liked, but trust me, saving for it was a wise investment. Especially with the student loan snafu—”
“You can relax, Mom. There’s nothing to this at all. I still plan to get my forensic sciences degree, for crying out loud.”
I turn on my heel to vacate the premises before things escalate. Mom and the supernatural world don’t have the best of track records, but Mom and money are even worse. The last thing I want is a four-hour discussion about the nature of things and how the system is built to “keep us little folks down.”
Mom follows me. “Why are you walking away, Autumn? We're not done here. What aren’t you telling me?”
Spinning around, I scrunch my face, trying to hold it steady without drawing out her imagination. “N-nothing.”
“Well, that was convincing,” she says, placing a hand on her hip. “You know, I always thought we had a pretty good thing going here. I know we’ve had our ups and downs, and this last year having to work at the craft shop hasn’t been ideal, but I never thought lying would be a thing.”
“It’s not. I’m not—” I say, unable to contain the anger building inside me. “Mom, I have no idea what this is or why it arrived. If you can’t trust me, or believe me, then that says more about you than it does me.”
Her mouth pops open, but words don’t tumble out at their ordinary pace.
Without wasting another moment, I turn my back on her and stomp upstairs to my bedroom. It’s the one space in this tiny house that’s off limits for her, and she knows it. After closing the door, I fling the packet onto my bed and lean back against the wood doorframe.
My brain whirls around, trying to make sense of the past few minutes. There is literally no reason for me to apply to the Windhaven Academy and even less reason to be accepted. I have no powers at all. None. Trust me, I’d know after the years of wishful thinking and trying to make something amazing happen. I’ve seen close friends learn their abilities and go on to do incredible things. But I’m still here—stuck in Mistwood Point until I can afford the state university like a completely ordinary girl. Meh. At least going for
