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Willow Black is a patient in a mental health facility. She is there for attempted murder and for a terrifying fear of water. When she looks into water, she tends to see the future against her will and when she saw a man she had a vision of killing her, she tried to kill him instead. Only, nobody believed her. Sebastian Crane is the new administrator of the mental facility that Will is a patient of. He’s also the man she has had in-depth visions of a future and life together since she was 12. Unfortunately, while he is drawn to Willow, he doesn’t have the same gift of sight and feels he’s breaking the rules by wanting her. When strange things keep happening when Willow is around and with another patient, Sebastian keeps getting drawn back to her.

This the third book in Lori Handeland’s Sisters of the Craft trilogy. In this one, we meet Willow, the sister that neither the ghostly parents nor the other two sisters has been able to find. Unlike the other two sisters, Willow’s life was filled with bouncing from foster home to foster home and a less than good life. It starts roughly 2 months before the first book. When she finally meets her sisters and learns of her heritage, it’s a little harder for her with the acceptance and adjustment. She’s also tasked with a bit more of a challenge in getting Sebastian to see that they were meant to be.

This book was a great wrap-up to the trilogy. The author did a great job with this book and with the entire trilogy. She was able to embed a huge overlapping storyline while giving the couple in each book their HEA. There was a nice wrap-up of some of the side characters, like Owen’s mom, that I really liked. Highly recommend.   

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Becca Carstairs is a veterinarian in small town Wisconsin. She knows she’s a little on the weird side. After all, She “hears” animals talking in her head and there’s the odd wolf with the green eyes that she’s known her whole life. When she’s out on her nightly wogging, she goes past her ex-boyfriend’s abandoned house, only to find it’s not quite so abandoned. Owen McAllister comes back to the town that shunned him as a military vet, expecting to repair his old house and get back out of Dodge. Instead he finds that his house has not only been damaged by local youth, but it’s been used as a demonic sacrifice site. As he tries to figure out what to do with it, he finds Becca, the one he left behind, lurking nearby. Together, they try to figure out why someone would want to kill her as Becca also finds that she’s definitely not who she thought she was.

This is book two in Lori Handeland’s Sisters of The Craft trilogy. It picks up pretty much where the first one leaves off with the second sister accepting her heritage and trying to escape modern-day witch hunters. This one, like the first book, was as fast-paced as the first book. Once I started it, I couldn’t really put it down. As Becca learns about who she really is and deals with what happened between her and Owen, in the past and present, I was completely caught into the story. The author does a great job of really drawing you into the world she creates. I highly recommend this book and series.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Four-hundred years. Infant Willow Black was sent four-hundred years, to today, this time and place, a place “without magic.” A place where she and her sisters, triplets all, can be safe. But now, Willow is an inmate of the Northern Wisconsin Mental Health Facility – i.e., the loony bin. Not so safe after all.

To save their daughters from slaughter at the hands of McHugh, an evil, vicious “witch hunter” Henry and Pru willing gave their lives in the flames of the pyre in order to send their daughters forward in time – to a time when no one believes in witches. But the thing is, now time is rolling back around again – and the evil of those who call themselves “hunters of evil” yet are truly the most evil of all, have brought McHugh back into the world, spreading slaughter and fire in their wake.

Today, magic has been overrun by technology. But Wiccans still exist – Wiccans, whose one immutable law is “Harm None”. The followers of McHugh, the Venatores Mali, are so cruel that those who harm none are considered evil by those who commit the most evil of deeds in the name of so-called ‘good’. Such twisted minds, that ritual slaughter of innocents is considered godly.

McHugh is back. Reborn into the world, his followers gathered around him. And now, the three girls, Raye, an Air Witch, Becca, an animal communicator, and now Willow, Water Witch and the third of the triplets, must work together to stop the Hunters, to send McHugh back to the darkness.

“Ignorance. Illiteracy. Hubris and insecurity, mad obsession. Once upon a time, long ago, in the bad, ignorant, evil times of King James and his Danish queen, there was a great storm. James, an ignorant, religious fool, thought to himself, “Such a storm can only have been caused by witchcraft!” And in his ignorance and fear, he called to himself Roland McHugh, witch hunter, who he placed in charge of a secret society, known as Venatores Mali – Hunters of Evil. And from those savage beginnings there began an age of slaughter, of blood and death of innocents such as hearkened to war. And Roland McHugh spread his evil across Europe, spraying blood and hatred in his path. . . Roland McHugh – who, according to his Wikipedia entry, “had burned more witches than anyone in history.” (My words, not the author’s)

This is the third, and final, book of the Sisters of the Craft series. You can read my reviews for books one and two at tinyurl (dot) com/p8yvpat . I enjoyed all three of the books. They easily fit within the Paranormal Romance category, but they can also fit well within Urban Fantasy. The storylines are interesting, the characters well designed, and the meld of history and fiction is quite good.

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Smoke on the Water is the last installment of the Sisters of the Craft series. This book finally brings all three sisters together, which is why it's my favorite of the trilogy. I like how the author backs up and give us a little bit of each sister's story before combining them, even though it got better once they were all connected.

Willow Black is the sister we have been missing. She has been in a mental health facility because she sees visions anytime she gets around water. I was kind of hoping that there would be some sort of mystery involved in finding her, but that's not how the author decided to play things out.

The book states that the mental health facility was built using the Kirkbride Plan in the 19th century. It was easy for me to conjure up a picture of the building in my head because I recently returned from a trip to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. It was also a Kirkbride asylum.

I wasn't feeling the connection between Willow and Sebastian. She has been having visions of him her entire life. She says they are fated to be together, but it seems to me they should still take the time to fall in love, or maybe I just have a hard time believing in insta-love.

My favorite part was the epilogue. The scene was beautiful. Although I didn't get into these books as much as I thought I would, they are still some good reads. I would recommend this if you like paranormal romance.

My Thoughts - 5 out of 5 Unicorns - I loved it!!!

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The cover is stunning and beautiful!!  I’ve loved them all :)

This is the 3^rd book in the trilogy.  They have all rocked!!  This is the 3^rd sister’s story Willow.  She is amazingly strong and sweet.  Sebastian isn’t sure which way is up after he meets Willow.  Of course Willow’s whole awesome family is in the book too which I love.  Everything just magically fit together to make an awesome adventure and story….I couldn’t resist.  This is the conclusion of the series, and it does have a fabulous ending which I will tell you nothing about because you just have to read it :)

Lori’s creativity is just amazing.  I have had no problems connecting with her characters or the awesome world she has created :)  I guess I’m stuck on words beginning with A today…lol  I can’t wait to see what Lori cooks up next :)

I highly recommend this whole series to any paranormal fans who love magic, family, witches, and love because the mix just works :)