Ember Blackburn is the second child her mother never wanted, a rejected half witch with a dangerous gift for lies—and ruining lives when she tells them. Ignored by her witch relatives and shut out of Everden, Ember settles for a magicless existence, taking care of her human father on a quiet cul-de-sac in Pennsylvania. Then, a mysterious male witch is ordered to retrieve her, and Ember’s dragged to the picturesque world of witches where she knows she isn’t wanted.
Lethal, truth-telling, and devastatingly handsome, Leland Stray is bound to protect the half witch—an impossible task in a realm taught to despise her for her human breeding. Soon after Ember’s arrival, innocent witches start to go missing, and Ember, the target of every witch with a vendetta against humans, becomes the prime suspect in the disappearances.
A life-or-death entanglement with Leland means Ember must find a way to convince Everden she isn’t a threat, or Leland will suffer. But, haunted by a feeling that something is incalculably wrong with her, Ember will first have to stop being her own worst advocate and convince herself—then the realm—that she belongs.
Halloweentown meets The Magicians, Aycee Lucy’s HALF OF A SECOND CHILD is the first book in a romantasy series about a half witch trapped in the enchanting but politically divided world of Everden.
