The Windhaven WitchesBooks 1-4 Carissa Andrews Contents Secret Legacy 1. Should I Stay or Should I Go? 2. And Then There Was an Angel 3. The Winds of Change Are Coming 4. Barely Existedness 5. Going Back in Time 6. I Don't Wanna Go... 7. Welcome Home, Autumn 8. Do You Think I'm Nuts? 9. The Witching Stick 10. Veritas vos Liberabit 11. First Day of School & Other Strange Things 12. Okay, That Was Unusual 13. Holy Hell—It Was You! 14. I Just Hope You're Ready 15. Library & Dead Ancestors 16. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 17. A Trail To Follow 18. Shadows & Tattered Wallpaper 19. Legacies and Curses 20. Broken Loyalties 21. Remnants 22. Careful What You Wish For 23. Surprise 24. Forbidden 25. When the Dead Rise 26. Showtime 27. I Can't Do This Alone 28. Gemini Blood 29. Circle Back Around 30. Sinner Soul Legacy 1. Loose Ends 2. Witching Stick, Take 2 3. Where Do I Sign? 4. Desecrated 5. Rumors On The First Day 6. All That Follows 7. New Doors Best Left Closed 8. Undead Things 9. A Home For The Dead 10. Who's Out There? 11. Maybe It Was Fate 12. Buzzkill 13. Prove It 14. Confessions 15. All Eyes Are On 16. The Jig Is Up 17. Speak Your Truths 18. A Wellspring Of Veneration 19. Gather Your Alliances 20. Convergence 21. Sworn To Secrecy 22. Unleashing Pandora 23. A Death Wish 24. A Guarantee 25. Fetch 26. All Things Displaced 27. Sudden Death 28. Where Do We Go From Here? Haunted Legacy 1. Death is my curse 2. What’s Fate Got to Do With It? 3. Open Wounds 4. Haunting 5. Messed Up 6. One Reason 7. The Thread of Life 8. Lucky to Have Found You 9. Seeking Answers 10. Sacred Spaces 11. Panic Room 12. The Space Between Us 13. Paranormal Activity 14. Banishment & Protection 15. Against the Clock 16. His Time Has Come 17. To Whom This House Belongs 18. Stages of Grief 19. Answers Within 20. A Cursed Legacy 21. What Kind of Choices Are These? 22. Summoning the Forgotten 23. Into the Vortex 24. Tick Tock 25. What Is It Good For? 26. In His Likeness 27. Puppet Master 28. Death Wish 29. Splintering 30. Always Be With You 31. Chin Up Cursed Legacy 1. A Lot Like Christmas 2. The Roller Coaster of a Cursed Life 3. Phone Calls & Exploration 4. Pomp and Circumstance 5. Puzzling 6. For Your Sins 7. Lies 8. Family Matters 9. Out in the Open 10. Put to the Test 11. Breathe 12. Life, Death, & Metamorphosis 13. Pity Party & Negotiations 14. An Insane Gamble 15. The Other Side 16. Them’s the Rules 17. Clear the Sins Away 18. Ripples 19. Merry Christmas 20. Lachesis 21. Pulling the Strings 22. The Only Way Forward 23. Fail-safe 24. The Box 25. Sin-Eater 26. Memories 27. Done with Fate 28. Second Chances Also by Carissa Andrews About the Author Secret Legacy Chapter 1 Should I Stay or Should I Go? By the absurd color of my mother’s face, it’s safe to say I’m royally screwed. “I asked you a question,” Mom says, her hazel eyes trained expectantly on me. My mouth drops open, and I shake my head. “I don’t even know what that is.” “Don’t play coy with me, Autumn. This is a big deal—a behemoth deal. You don’t get a packet like this to the Windhaven Academy unless they’ve accepted your enrollment,” she says, placing a protective hand across the large purple packet with sparkly stars across it. Instinctively, I grab for the envelope, tugging it from under her palm. I pull it to my chest without even looking closer at it. It’s got some heft to it, and I float through the decisions of whether to toss it in the trash or walk off with it. “Look, Mom, there’s gotta be a mistake here. Or maybe someone is playing a practical joke on me. The Windhaven Academy…that’s a school for kids with unique abilities—the supernatural kids. Why would I apply there, let alone get accepted? It’s ludicrous.” “That’s what I would like to know. Imagine my shock when the mailman passed it over,” she says. “The last I heard you were planning on going to the U next year. I know it’s not as early as you would have liked, but trust me, saving for it was a wise investment. Especially with the student loan snafu—” “You can relax, Mom. There’s nothing to this at all. I still plan to get my forensic sciences degree, for crying out loud.” I turn on my heel to vacate the premises before things escalate. Mom and the supernatural world don’t have the best of track records, but Mom and money are even worse. The last thing I want is a four-hour discussion about the nature of things and how the system is built to “keep us little folks down.” Mom follows me. “Why are you walking away, Autumn? We're not done here. What aren’t you telling me?” Spinning around, I scrunch my face, trying to hold it steady without drawing out her imagination. “N-nothing.” “Well, that was convincing,” she says, placing a hand on her hip. “You know, I always thought we had a pretty good thing going here. I know we’ve had our ups and downs, and this last year having to work at the craft shop hasn’t been ideal, but I never thought lying would be a thing.” “It’s not. I’m not—” I say, unable to contain the anger building inside me. “Mom, I have no idea what this is or why it arrived. If you can’t trust me, or believe me, then that says more about you than it does me.” Her mouth pops open, but words don’t tumble out at their ordinary pace. Without wasting another moment, I turn my back on her and stomp upstairs to my bedroom. It’s the one space in this tiny house that’s off limits for her, and she knows it. After closing the door, I fling the packet onto my bed and lean back against the wood doorframe. My brain whirls around, trying to make sense of the past few minutes. There is literally no reason for me to apply to the Windhaven Academy and even less reason to be accepted. I have no powers at all. None. Trust me, I’d know after the years of wishful thinking and trying to make something amazing happen. I’ve seen close friends learn their abilities and go on to do incredible things. But I’m still here—stuck in Mistwood Point until I can afford the state university like a completely ordinary girl. Meh. At least going for
