In my debut novel, The Witch Haven, 17-year-old seamstress Frances Hallowell is whisked off to Haxahaven Academy, a school for witches disguised as a tuberculosis sanitarium. Frances’s world of 1911 New York resembles my own adolescence in suburban Utah in exactly zero ways, but there was nothing I longed for more as a teenager than to be taken away to a magic boarding school. In my teenage fantasies, I lived in a crumbling castle and wore a cute plaid skirt and there was also someone (was he a mysterious boy with curly hair and piercing eyes? That’s my business!) who would teach me witchcraft.
Read an Excerpt From Sasha Peyton Smith’s The Witch Haven
Fantasy, Young Adult || A young woman discovers she has magical powers and is thrust into a battle between witches and wizards.
