New Moon Rising

by Cassandra Featherstone, Serenity Rayne

Twin sisters Fiadh and Feray Morgenstern have spent their whole lives believing they’re both witches, with Fiadh the gifted one and Feray the family “dud” who can’t cast a single spell. At their Ascension ceremony, the ritual where every young witch in the city of Briarvale is supposed to receive her full power and meet her fated mate, everything goes wrong in public and at once: Fiadh’s magic doesn’t manifest as promised, Feray turns out to be a wolf shifter and not a witch at all, and neither of them appears to have a mate. The city’s High Mage seizes the moment to declare them worthless in front of the entire community, and the sisters are shunned on the spot. That same night, the bar and apartment belonging to Philly, the satyr who’s been their found-family father figure since their parents’ deaths, burns to the ground.

Cast out of witch society and homeless, Fiadh and Feray take jobs at a vampire-owned BDSM nightclub and slowly rebuild, only to discover the Ascension lied to them twice over: they do have mates, several each, who simply weren’t present at the ceremony because witches and shifters and Fae don’t all attend the same rites. As the sisters settle into new poly households with their respective partners, they start pulling on a thread that runs from a mysterious symbol carved into Philly’s back after a second attack, back to their parents’ unsolved, deeply suspicious deaths three years earlier, and into a prophecy that names the sisters the “Children of the Moon,” destined for a battle neither of them understands yet.

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