The items in the girl's tattered suitcase?a mysterious book and a crystal pitcher?tip off Sally that Lucinda may be no ordinary 11-year-old.
An orphan who has been living with her overbearing grandmother in Salem, Mass., Lucinda is searching for her aunt, who, it emerges, had been squatting at the house before Sally's family purchased it.
Suspense and subtlety, in fact, are in somewhat short supply throughout however, the plot is spirited and both the characterizations and the prose are more polished than typically on offer from a paperback series.
Given the title of this debut volume in the Spell Casters series, there is no question about the nature of the green-eyed girl who appears at Sally's ramshackle Victorian home in St.
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