Yes, it is,” I whispered, “and one day the spell will not cause you to forget it.

Can a rose survive in winter?

Rebecca, we live in a world where darkness seems, in the minds of many, something banished to the world of fairy tales and superhero movies. How surprising it then becomes—even for those of us who believe otherwise—that it may appear in our own lives, in our own battles. To face an opponent that is more than the average ‘jerk,’ who has made a deadly choice, is, let us admit it, nothing that we expect to experience.

Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.