The Skinwalker's Apprentice
Release Date: 02/24/14
Summary from Goodreads:
New York City 1984: It’s Emerald Kipp’s sixteenth
birthday, and nothing has changed. She’s still the biggest loser in school,
she’s still trying to find a place for herself and yeah, she’s still a witch.
Her last year of high school is turning out to be the worst yet, and Emerald
thinks it can’t possibly get any worse. Unfortunately for her, she’s dead
wrong.
East Hampton, NY 1658: The Pennyfeathers are the black sheep of their small
English settlement. As hard as they try to keep the family secrets just that,
the magical bunch just can’t seem to fit in. But when a High Priestess witch
chooses 16-year-old Margo Pennyfeather as an apprentice, Margo’s luck finally
begins to change. What she doesn’t know, is there’s a lot more to her
apprenticeship, and to being a witch, than she could ever imagine.
Discover the mysterious beginnings of The Empire Witch Series in "The
Skinwalker's Apprentice: An Emerald Kipp Novella."
Excerpt
Jackson
Darcantel was on his skateboard, heading towards the front entrance of Upperten
High School, when he spotted a blue head of hair crawling out of the bushes.
“Emerald?”
She looked up as if it was perfectly
normal to be crawling out of the shrubbery and smiled.
“Hey, Jackson, how’s it going?”
Emerald popped up and wiped her jeans clean, patting the Walkman on the inside
of her oversized army jacket for good measure.
“Are you sneaking out of Principal
Grossman’s office already? Sheesh, Emerald, it’s only been THREE weeks.”
“Technically, I wasn’t sneaking out
since I was never really inside,” she
rationalized, squinting as she said the word “really.” “I was only sort of
inside.”
“I’m not even gonna ask what that
means. I just know it was something illegal and probably dangerous.”
Emerald smiled. Jackson was one of
her oldest friends, and he was used to her getting into trouble at every turn.
He was a smooth talker, which came in handy when she was trying to weasel her
way out of something. Jackson picked his skateboard up and carried it under his
arm, and the two friends walked together. He was much taller than Emerald,
almost six feet to her barely five and a half. He wore a cap turned towards the
side and a black windbreaker jacket over his dark blue tee shirt and jeans. He
looked like a younger version of Denzel Washington. Even Emerald, who thought
of him as brother, had to admit he was pretty good looking. She had no idea why
Jackson hung around her. Aside from being nice to look at, Jackson was also
incredibly smart. He was everybody’s favorite high school senior, and she was
on a fast track towards juvie. But they had been friends since first grade, and
Jackson saw a side of Emerald that her classmates never got to see. There was
more to her than just being the school troublemaker.
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About the Author
Claribel Ortega is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase
journalism program, and got her start writing for the school’s Independent
Newspaper. There, she quickly rose the ranks from editing the student’s often
times hilarious ads and ramblings on the back page of the paper to staff and
feature writer.
After graduation, Claribel worked as a reporter for
The Rivertowns Enterprise, a local paper in lower Westchester County, New York.
As a reporter, she enjoyed going to board of education meetings and texting the
town mayors about the line at Starbucks.
Today, Claribel works for The Combined Book Exhibit,
a book marketing company in Westchester NY.
She lives in New York with her really awesome
boyfriend, her suspiciously intelligent yorkie Pancho Villa and is surrounded
by an impenetrable fort of books she gets from her job.
“The Skinwalker’s Apprentice” is her first book, and
cheese is her favorite food.
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