Cursed the moment I fell in love with her.

While home in Raleigh for semester break, I didn't expect my girlfriend, Alondra, to ask me for a favor: present my Book of Shadows to the leader of a satanic cult. She was looking for a new male witch for her coven. Of course, she knew it wouldn't be me.

But when a curse took hold of our college campus-and the spirits I thought I'd left behind came back-I realized I couldn't keep the book closed much longer.

Now something dark surrounds me. Is it the work of the wizard with the devilish goatee? Or is it a little girl possessed by something far worse?

I lit a dark shadow, and now I feel only confusion. Whatever this darkness is, it's coming for Alondra, our family, and every witch in Hawthorne.