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Hobgoblins and Homework

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by Amanda A. Allen


  She knelt next to them, placing a hand on each of their wrists, and then delved into the grove to feel the magic of the grove rise up. As it did, she fed it into Lex and Amelie helping them bridge the divide between them and feel each other’s feelings. Given that she was the bridge, she could feel their love. In Amelie, there was anger and hurt—a lot of it. With it, Scarlett felt hero worship and adoration. She felt moments of intense loneliness where all she wanted was her Daddy and the aching pain of having been abandoned by her mother.

  But in Lex—it was regret for moments lost, it was fierce joy in the good times, and it was an unequivocal tide of love. Not even a tide, but a flood of it. Scarlett could have drowned in that love, that determination to be better this time—it was repentance for what had gone before. He had changed. Scarlett had no doubt that he adored his daughter and would be an excellent father to her.

  “Oh,” Scarlett said. “Oh.”

  And like that, with one breath, she fell, face down, full and completely into love.

  THE END

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  Coming Soon: Christmas and Curses. The holidays—druid style.

  Coming in November: Spells and Jinglebells. Just like with Witch or Treat, Spells and Jinglebells will include hundreds of pages of short stories from great paranormal authors. This book is coming in November, will be $0.99 and include another short story from Harper’s life.

  The Mystic Cove Mommy Mysteries

  Bedtimes & Broomsticks

  Runes & Roller Skates

  Costumes and Cauldrons (found in the anthology Witch or Treat)

  Banshees and Babysitters

  Spellbooks and Sleepovers: A Mystic Cove Short Story

  Hobgoblins and Homework

  Gifts and Ghouls (found in the anthology Spells and Jinglebells)

  Christmas and Curses (coming in December)

  The Zinnia West 1950s Mysteries (co-written with Christina Hill)

  Zinnia West & The Corpse Served Cold

  Zinnia West & The Corpse Burnt Crisp

  The Rue Hallow Mysteries

  Hallow Graves

  Hungry Graves

  Lonely Graves

  Sisters and Graves

  Yule Graves

  Fated Graves

  Ruby Graves

  The Inept Witches Mysteries (co-written with Auburn Seal)

  Inconvenient Murder

  Moonlight Murder

  Bewitched Murder

  Presidium Vignettes (with Rue Hallow)

  Prague Murder

  Paris Murder

  Murder By Degrees

  Curses of the Witch Queen

  Fairy Tales Re-Imagined

  Song of Sorrow: A Prelude to Rapunzel

  Snow White

  Kendawyn Paranormal Regency Romances

  Compelled by Love

  Bewildered by Love

  Persuaded to Love

  Other Novels

  These Lying Eyes

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