Persephone was abandoned when she was just a baby. She grew up in the foster care system and never found a forever home. She was a child around whom strange things happened, strange things for which she seemed to be the catalyst.
Now a grown woman in her thirties, Persephone is still plagued by strange occurrences and lives her life on the run, ready to bolt at a moment's notice.
Unknown to Persephone, someone has been looking for her. That person is Hyacinth Evers and when she finds Persephone, she invites her to come stay at her family home on Wile Island. She believes Persephone is her long lost cousin whose mother and grandmother were forced to leave their home on Wile Island and live in exile. Hyacinth also believes that Persephone is an untrained witch and that together with herself and her sister Moira, who are trained witches, they can lift a curse that was placed on the island a hundred years ago.
But Hyacinth and Moira are not the only witches on Wile Island. Two other sister witches live on the island. Ellison and Ariel Way are certain that the Evers sister's attempts to lift the curse will actually destroy the island. That combined with bad blood that dates back to their shared childhood has turned the Way sisters against their Evers cousins. And against Persephone as the unwitting, untrained tool of the Evers witches.
This was an OK read. The first part is pretty intriguing as Persephone accidentally causes several men to attempt to kill themselves simply because she looked them straight in the eyes. But once she arrived on Wile Island, it got a bit boring, living the rural witchy life with the two sisters. But just in time, Persephone meets a man of mystery who sets her toes to tingling. That certainly made the story a bit more engaging. But overall the story never really grabbed me.
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