Lavendalia Mortali

Lavendalia was never supposed to exist — at least, not according to the Coven of the Mirewick. Her mother, Seraphine Mortali, was a powerful hedge witch who broke the coven’s most sacred law: she fell in love with an ordinary man. When Seraphine vanished under mysterious circumstances on the night of Lavendalia’s seventh birthday, the coven whispered that her magic had finally consumed her. The truth was something far more complicated — and something Lavendalia is only now beginning to uncover. She was raised by her father, Edric, a quiet clockmaker who never spoke of magic, spells, or the strange silver birthmark shaped like a crescent moon on Lavendalia’s left wrist. He kept her world deliberately small. Safe. Tick-tock ordinary.