What if you could smell magic—or go to a bar and get a shot of magic to go with your cocktail? Will an aging sorcerer’s last pupil ever learn anything? And what could possibly go wrong when a pair of witches enter the local chili cook-off?
Includes Thea Hutcheson's "The Final Initiation": Eight years ago, Sindal fled the brutal husband her father married her off to at eleven. Now she comes home a blooded witch, with a lioness spirit at her heels and one trial left before she earns her sorceress's marks: kill her husband. But the man she came to destroy took a new wife in her place — her own little sister — and every way Sindal can finish her final initiation would cost them both everything.